Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pacbell!pcbox!pjc
From: pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 3.51a kernel
Message-ID: <409@pcbox.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 19:19:03 GMT
References: <1603@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Reply-To: pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie)
Organization: Yet Another Box - Castro Valley, Ca.
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Keywords: 3b1 3.51a fix disk unixpc

In article <1603@lll-lcc.aRpA> dre@lll-lcc.aRpA (Douglas R. East) writes:
>This brings up another question, has anyone or can you build a bootable
>floppy which you can run, of course, a minimal system under?  I had to
>reload the entire foundation set using the 3.51 upgrade procedure since
>I didn't have such a beast--the 3.51 distribution does have a bootable
>floppy and floppy file system although I haven't taken the time,
>admittedly, to look at what is really on there.  In any case, it doesn't
>allow one to do anything, it just goes through its upgrade script.  I


The upgrade script is just the /etc/profile on the floppy file system
disk.  You probably could have hit the interrupt to stop the script and
kick you into a shell.  I made a copy of the floppy file system and
removed the profile.