Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 22:55:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812060655.WAA02653@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:17:09 PST." <2949.912831429@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > At the moment, the current exploratory strategy is the split kern.flp/ > > mfsroot.gz arrangement. It's probably going to make more sense just to > > have them as two floppy images for distribution purposes. > > If the mfsroot image is a UFS filesystem containing an mfsroot.gz > file, I'm all for it. I just don't want to lose our newfound ability > to say: "There's really nothing special about building MicroFreeBSD > systems for installation or any other purpose anymore - just take any > kernel with MFS_ROOT turned on and any gzip'd UFS filesystem for its > root and Bob's yer uncle!" It shouldn't really require MFS_ROOT turned on (the foo_ROOT options are IMO bogus); it should always be checking for an mfs_root type object. But no, the mfsroot image should indeed be either a UFS filesystem or a FAT filesystem (the latter would make adding extra drivers to the disk easier). > Hmmmmm. For that matter, we could make sure that the mfsroot was also > a bootable floppy image with a /boot/boot.4th file on it which said: > > : yell 7 emit ." NO, BOOT THE OTHER FLOPPY, YOU KNOB!" cr ; > > yell > key drop > reset > > Or something to that effect. :-) That's an excellent argument for making it a UFS floppy, yes. Either that, or ask Robert for a bootsector that says the same thing... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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