Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: 1995/06/15

>>I would like to make a bootable floppy for SUN OS 4.1.3.
>
>Definitely possible.  It's pretty simple.

Yes, I found the procedure described in the Solaris 2 Answerbook. It is generally identical to your outline. For the record, the steps are:

fdformat newfs /dev/rfd0c mount /dev/rfd0c /mnt cp /boot /mnt cd /usr/kvm/mdec installboot /mnt/boot bootfd /dev/rfd0c

As I mentioned in the original post, I had the kernel intact on the hard disk, which I figure is the common case - people like me screw up the boot table. So, I made boot load the standard vmunix from there. The boot command is:

ok boot fd()-a

The system then boots from the floppy and asks you several questions, among which, on which device is the root filesystem and what is the name of the kernel. The answers in my case were /dev/rsd0g and /vmunix.

Kamen Penev