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author | dcs <dcs@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-02-22 07:34:53 +0000 |
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committer | dcs <dcs@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-02-22 07:34:53 +0000 |
commit | 56b5095e9ba98d942af9908695a2e2ec176c2ebe (patch) | |
tree | 368ae268bf74cf402cdcc5ede93e4f1e5c5a4d30 /release/texts | |
parent | 4798254d00bb262700a9105a1adba6d0d3c46b94 (diff) | |
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Since we don't have rfd0 anymore, put in a line that will actually work
for generating floppies.
Mention mdconfig(8) instead of vnconfig(8).
Diffstat (limited to 'release/texts')
-rw-r--r-- | release/texts/FLOPPIES.TXT | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/FLOPPIES.TXT b/release/texts/FLOPPIES.TXT index 5cd6af4..4a60e5c 100644 --- a/release/texts/FLOPPIES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/FLOPPIES.TXT @@ -20,12 +20,10 @@ Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and kern.flp into a directory somewhere. You would do the same for mfsroot.flp, of course. If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find -that: +that one of the following: + dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 - -or - dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment @@ -54,6 +52,6 @@ hardware arise. As long as the kernel is compiled with and boot an mfsroot.flp image in memory when run (see how the /boot/loader.rc file in kern.flp does its thing). The mfsroot.flp image is also just a gzip'd filesystem image which is used as root, -something which can be made rather easily using vnconfig(8). +something which can be made rather easily using mdconfig(8). If none of that makes any sense to you then don't worry about it - just use the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images as described above. |