Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:07:22 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Nov 17, 97 09:05:12 pm"
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John-Mark Gurney said: > John S. Dyson scribbled this message on Nov 17: > > I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the > > need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would > > be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). > > why not dedicate 32megs of another hard drive to a backup root? I've > now decided to put a 32meg root on all hard drives even if they aren't > going to normally boot from... (what's 32megs from 2gigs? :) ) > That works well also. It would be kind of nice to come up with an automatic mini-root setup. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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