Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:40:38 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <3826EEF6.4F676BCD@nisser.com> References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> <3826EBF5.6FD7794D@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you? And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray tell, does root reside below mnt? > You mean two _slices_, one on the first 1024, and the other at the > end of the disk containing the usual _partitions_ (FreeBSD > terminoloy -- not getting religious here, just clarifying)? This is > a common work-around. Nope, I mean two *partitions*. You see, *I* did RTFM. FYI what you suggest is nonsense. Won't work since that is not the way things work. Would work in, say, Linux, not in FreeBSD. Nor, I think but it's been awhile, in OpenBSD. > AFAIK, it should be relatively trivial. Since we're clearly talking about two different topice I can but agree that what you've got in mind is relatively trivial. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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