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diff --git a/contrib/mkffwnb/README b/contrib/mkffwnb/README deleted file mode 100644 index 38df4769..00000000 --- a/contrib/mkffwnb/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -This is a quick and dirty script to convert a floppyfw floppy -(http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/) to a tagged image for booting with -Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/). The advantages of network -booting include: it's much faster loading from the network than from a -floppy disk, you can boot from any size floppy, and you are not limited -to the maximum of 1.44 MB of the physical floppy. If you have enough RAM -and use a virtual floppy to build the initial boot image, you can put as -much on it as will fit the ramdisk. - -See further down under -nonet if you want to boot from HD or CDROM. - -This program requires mtools, tar, bzip2, loopback mount in the kernel, -and root privileges to execute. Hope you have them. - -This script works for any of the releases for which a subdirectory of -that name is provided, but it should not be too hard to make it work for -other releases, all that is done here is to substitute some scripts for -the distributed ones. - -First of all you should make the floppy work the way you want before -converting it to a tagged image. This involves editing the various -config files on the floppy. Instructions on this are distributed from -the floppyfw web page mentioned above. - -Edit the $tftpdir assignment for the directory where you put your tagged -images. Edit the $libdir assignment and the use lib directive near the -top if you decide to put this package somewhere other than -/usr/local/lib/mkffwnb/. Adjust the instructions below as necessary. - -Copy everything to $libdir. - - mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/mkffwnb/ - cp -a . /usr/local/lib/mkffwnb/ - -Make a link from /usr/local/lib/mkffwnb/mkffwnb.pl to -/usr/local/bin/mkffwnb so that it's in your path. - - ln -s /usr/local/lib/mkffwnb/mkffwnb.pl /usr/local/bin/mkffwnb - -Then run it as: - - mkffwnb - -You can also provide a floppy drive as an argument, e.g. - - mkffwnb x: - -where x: could be mapped to a disk file. This allows you to build an -image without a real floppy drive. Remember that for virtual drives root -must have the mapping for the drive in question in ~root/.mtoolsrc. - -You can use the option --localtime=/etc/localtime to specify that the -file /etc/localtime is to be copied to /etc/localtime on the initrd. -Instead of /etc/localtime, you can use any of the timezone files under -/usr/share/zoneinfo/, it's just that /etc/localtime will usually be the -correct one for your timezone. - -If you use the option -nonet, it leaves the intermediate files in -$tempdir, /tmp/mkffwnb by default. This is useful if you want the -vmlinuz and initrd.gz files for use with LILO or isolinux to boot from -HD or CDROM. Actually you can also use these with a floppy, it loads -faster if you fold all the scripts and modules into the initrd ahead -of time. - -mkffwnb has to be run as root because it uses loopback mounts and also -because the files inside the initrd are owned by root. - -Ken Yap -2003-04-20 |