Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:00:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: rickl@ic.net, pechter@lakewood.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick Message-ID: <199707222000.NAA13934@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707220948.TAA29292@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 22, 97 07:18:53 pm
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> > I second that....a small DOS partition instead of the BFS is great. As one > > who usually blasts the kernel from time to time, I would really appreciate > > a "simple" fix without using a special floppy or reinstall. > > Uhh, what's a DOS boot disk if not a "special" floppy? > > And what about the backup kernels, hmm? A BSD boot disk is just as capable of wrting DOS files. There's no hard-and-fast DOS requirement simply because you use FAT. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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