building a 3.5" distribution

[Brian Lloyd]

I have successfully converted my 5.25" SysV/AT distribution to 3.5"
diskettes.  I am going to assume that the second floppy drive on the
system where you are going to do the conversion is the 3.5" drive.  Here
is the process that I used:

1.  Create the bootable disk (see earlier posting).

2.  mknod /dev/rdsk/1s25 c 6 238

3.  ln /dev/rdsk/fd1mf2hd fd1hd

4.  Execute the following script for each diskette:

	echo 'Creating ID file (track 0)'
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/fd of=/dev/rdsk/fd1hd count=1
	echo 'ID file created.  Copying data ...'
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/0s25 of=/dev/rdsk/1s25 ibs=30b obs=36b
	echo 'Disk duplicated.'

5.  Boot the new system using the boot disk and begin the installation
    process.

6.  After the the boot disk has installed the minimal system on the
    target hard disk boot from the hard disk.

7.  Log in as root.

8.  rm /dev/rdsk/0s25

9.  mknod /dev/rdsk/0s25 c 6 230 (assuming 3.5 drive is drive 0)

10. ln /dev/rdsk/fd0mf2hd /dev/rdsk/0s24

11. Use installit to install the software.

73 de Brian, WB6RQN
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