Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks?

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2 total messages Started by Christoph Kukulies Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:03

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Author: Christoph Kukulies
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:03

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I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy
because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives.
Also I wanted to build a disk a la fixit.fs containing necessary 
programs to bootstrap the rest of the system from a running node via
rrestore (if anyone has a better idea how to automate and speedup
remote installation of 386bsd in a network his/her ideas would be heartly welcome)

Anyway - the essential question: Why does my 3.5" disk not boot? I make a disklabel and newfs on it and put a kernel and some stuff to live on it,
but I would at least expect, that the bootstrap is entered - I tried with 
both versions of fdboot (the original and Julians)

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--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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Re: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks?

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Author: Othman Ahmad
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:18

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Christoph Kukulies (kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:

: I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy
: because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives.
: Also I wanted to build a disk a la fixit.fs containing necessary 
: programs to bootstrap the rest of the system from a running node via
: rrestore (if anyone has a better idea how to automate and speedup
: remote installation of 386bsd in a network his/her ideas would be heartly welcome)

: Anyway - the essential question: Why does my 3.5" disk not boot? I make a disklabel and newfs on it and put a kernel and some stuff to live on it,
: but I would at least expect, that the bootstrap is entered - I tried with 
: both versions of fdboot (the original and Julians)

I was able to boot using 3.5" disk that contains an image of the 1.2Mbyte
dist.fs of the 386bsd 0.0 .

I've not tried the 0.1 version yet but I see no problem.

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet

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