Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:45:07 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disks insane? Message-ID: <11213.801895507@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 May 1995 22:14:49 MDT." <199505310414.WAA00245@rover.village.org>
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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
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