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From: name@portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: How do you make a floppykernel?
Keywords: device driver
Message-ID: <9659@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 90 03:25:12 GMT
Sender: tony cooper <name@portia.stanford.edu>
Organization: Stanford University
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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@popserver.stanford.edu