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Date:      Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:42:26 +0900
From:      Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        lansil@rpi.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: doFS.sh, FreeBSD To Go
Message-ID:  <20020809094226E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D52E7B5.94C9270F@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.A41.3.96.1020808121306.82002A-100000@cortez.sss.rpi.edu> <20020809022403C.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3D52E7B5.94C9270F@mindspring.com>

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tlambert2> FWIW, I think a floppy image is great.  I have a number of
tlambert2> older systems from which I cannot boot from the CDROM.

That's true, but this project (FreeBSD To Go) employs CD-ROM as their
root filesystem.  It is natual to boot from CD-ROM :-)

tlambert2> It's also desirable from the third party driver
tlambert2> perspective, as long as FreeBSD can load kernel modules of
tlambert2> a CDROM or DOS floppy in a binary format

Loader(8) would help you.

-- -
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

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