Subject: Re: A boot disk
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2001 15:48:21
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:08:27PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Simplest might be:
>
> disklabel -r -w /dev/fd0a floppy3
> newfs /dev/fd0a
> /usr/mdec/installboot -v -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
> mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
> cp yourkernel /mnt
>
> and see how far it gets...
Yeah, it worked in my computer... but now I noticed that I don't
have a floppy disk in my router... lol! I'll have to install one
before doing anything else :)
Btw, I have had to do:
gzip -c /tmp/netbsd > netbsd.gz
instead the cp.
Thanks
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick