From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 21:45:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA11104 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:26 -0700 Received: from westhill.cdrom.com (westhill.cdrom.com [192.216.223.57]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA11098 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:25 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by westhill.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id VAA11214 ; Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:08 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: westhill.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Warner Losh cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disks insane? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 May 1995 22:14:49 MDT." <199505310414.WAA00245@rover.village.org> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:07 -0700 Message-ID: <11213.801895507@westhill.cdrom.com> From: Gary Palmer Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199505310414.WAA00245@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >I just grabbed boot.flp and root.flp from the 2.0.5-ALPHA directory on >ftp.freebsd.org (yes, it has been released, but the announcement is >stuck in mailq hell, I'm told). Yep. >Anyway, I can't boot root.flp, and its size is quite odd (392,704 >bytes) Should these have been .gz? Or am I just immagining things and >need to refetch them? The root.flp is just the tools needed to get the system up and running a bit more smoothly than with what's on the boot.flp. It used to be `cpio.flp', but we changed the name as everyone wondered what the fsck cpio was, and why I needed a floppy full of it! Also, there used to be a kernel on the root disk, but with kzip'd kernels now, we can have a full generic kernel on the boot disk, and hence the kernel on the root(/cpio) disk is gone and the root.flp image is noticably smaller :-) Gary