customize floppies
Oliver Koch
koch at rz.tu-clausthal.de
Tue Jan 30 16:22:29 UTC 2007
Hello,
Björn König schrieb:
> You can modify the existing floppy images. boot.flp contains the first
> part of the kernel and kern*.flp the further parts.
>
> Build a custom kernel using
>
> makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE=""
>
> in your kernel configuration file.
>
> # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> # config YOURKERNEL
> # cd ../compile
> # make cleandepend; make depend
> # make
>
> Take your kernel file and compress it:
>
> # gzip -9nc kernel > kernel.gz
>
> Now you can use the 'split-file.sh' script from src/release/scripts to
> split the compressed kernel into parts.
>
> # /usr/src/release/scripts/split-file.sh kernel.gz destdir 1392 Kernel
>
> You can mount a floppy disk image with the following commands:
>
> # mdconfig -af boot.flp
> md45
> # mount /dev/md45 /mnt
>
> Replace the kernel parts with your own.
>
> I hope this helps. I havn't tested it before. There are other ways that
> are more elegant.
thank you very much, that worked fine!
Kind regards,
Oliver
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