John Hawkinson said on 2000-10-08:

> | Is it possible to extract the kernel used to boot the sysinst set from
> | floppy?  I've a custom sysinst floppy boot set, and I want to take the
> | included kernel and boot it regularly (i.e. off my scsi disk) until I can
> | get a real compiled kernel.
> | 
> | Any tips or ideas would be muchly appreciated.
> 
> You shouldn't need to extract it -- you can grab binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz,
> which is the same kernel. i.e.
> 
> ftp.netbsd.org://pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz

Normally, yes, but this isn't the 1.5 ALPHA2 kernel or any other
snapshot.  I only have the boot floppies - no gzip'd kern or other is
available...

Plus, it'd be neat to know how to do.

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