Subject: Re: bootable floppy
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, yenchee@zeus.csie.nctu.edu.tw`>
From: Mark P. Gooderum <mark@aggregate.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/12/1994 09:13:08
I've kind of fudged. I was able to successfully create some floppies back
in April and I've been reusing them. I just dd the disk image to the
new floppy, rm the old files and copy in new ones. I have a bootable
kernel and seperate very complete rootfs (courtesy of crunch, works great,
less filling).
At the time I used disklabel and newfs w/o too many problems. I ended up
having to create a disktab entry for a 1.44M floppy and using that for
disklabel.
The entry I created was slightly different than the default one.
This works with a June 2 current as well, can't say for present.
# Marks Additions
ufloppy|3.5in High Density Floppy for Unix:\
:ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#18:nc#80:\
:pa#2880:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD: \
:pb#2880:ob#0:\
:pc#2880:oc#0:
This is identical to the floppy entry except for the ta item on partition0.
For current you may have to delete the b and c entries.
-Mark
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