How do you make a floppykernel?

tony cooper name at portia.Stanford.EDU
Thu Mar 1 14:25:12 AEST 1990


Can anyone tell me how I can make a floppykernel starting from the kernel
code in the Device Drivers Kit? A floppykernel is one that looks for the
root filesystem on a floppy instead of on a SCSI device. There is a
floppykernel in the installation kit but it only has a device driver in it
for the Apple SC 40 tape drive. I want a floppykernel that contains my
driver for my DAT drive since in the event of having to restore my system
from a disk crash I don't want to have to do it using Apple's drive.

I have tried adding my driver by using the floppykernel as "newunix" but
that does not work since the symbols have been stripped from the floppykernel.

Tony Cooper
tony at popserver.stanford.edu



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