freebsd-skq

History

Jordan K. Hubbard 59617ad4b8 Totally change the way that devices are made in the MFS and subsequently probed in sysinstall. Rather than make template devices and use up lots of inodes, also restricting the number of devices that can be dealt with, mknod all necessary devices as necessary using built-in information. This removes a number of constraints on the number and type of devices that sysinstall can see.		1998-02-10 18:31:27 +00:00
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alpha	Remove the necessity of -ldes and -lalias etc from release/Makefile.	1998-01-17 14:21:21 +00:00
amd64	Remove the necessity of -ldes and -lalias etc from release/Makefile.	1998-01-17 14:21:21 +00:00
floppies	update the floppies directory to work better	1997-07-22 02:51:02 +00:00
i386	Remove the necessity of -ldes and -lalias etc from release/Makefile.	1998-01-17 14:21:21 +00:00
pc98	Remove the necessity of -ldes and -lalias etc from release/Makefile.	1998-01-17 14:21:21 +00:00
picobsd/build	Add a "I know it points to my foot!" -f option.	1997-09-18 18:27:34 +00:00
scripts	Add script for properly breaking out the doc dist.	1998-01-24 17:45:14 +00:00
sysinstall	Totally change the way that devices are made in the MFS and subsequently	1998-02-10 18:31:27 +00:00
ABOUT.TXT	Update XFree86 reference.	1997-10-17 02:27:24 +00:00
boot_crunch.conf	Remove the necessity of -ldes and -lalias etc from release/Makefile.	1998-01-17 14:21:21 +00:00
doFS.sh	1. Sync ABOUT.TXT changes.	1997-02-05 04:29:53 +00:00
dumpnlist.c	Multiple changes stacked as one commit since they all depend on one another.	1996-10-05 10:44:07 +00:00
fixit_crunch.conf	Add -lz	1997-12-25 23:08:44 +00:00
fixit.profile	. Remove the ${RELEASEDIR} variable, it turned out to be a constant	1997-03-02 11:59:26 +00:00
fixit.services	Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$	1997-02-22 14:13:04 +00:00
info.sh	Various fixes, take power.uu out as it was causing overflows. We'll	1996-06-07 11:46:19 +00:00
Makefile	Remove INTCVSROOT, no longer needed thanks to cvsup	1998-02-01 06:35:44 +00:00
README.TXT	Whups - use a slightly more up-to-date version.	1997-07-31 10:59:50 +00:00
tar.sh	Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$	1997-02-22 14:13:04 +00:00
write_mfs_in_kernel.c	Add a "I know it points to my foot!" -f option.	1997-09-18 18:27:34 +00:00

README.TXT

For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto an
actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB floppies).

NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files!  You cannot simply copy them to
a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them to the
floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX.

For example:

To create the boot floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like
this:

C> fdimage boot.flp a:

Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory
somewhere.  If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution,
then the *exact* command would be:

E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a:


If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
that:

        dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0

or

        dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy

work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).