Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:31:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) Message-ID: <199804201531.IAA00455@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980420110859.12552C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > About the discussion on minbsd, I am curious: > > > > can we mount the root partition from MSDOSFS or CD9660 ? > > > > I know we can have it from UFS or NFS, but not sure about other > > filesystem types (unless one plays tricks with root in mfs as it is > > done on the boot floppy...). > > CD9660 - yes (look into /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c). MSDOSFS - no, but from > the above-mentioned code it looks like relatively simple thing to do... > this would be great to have. You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need DEVFS for this to work. -- \\ 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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