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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:51:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011119165130.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011120003748.B1670@tao.org.uk>

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On 20-Nov-01 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:28:17PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 19-Nov-01 John Baldwin wrote:
>> > jhb         2001/11/19 13:27:00 PST
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     release              Makefile 
>> >   Log:
>> >   Split the mfsroot out from the kernel for the 2.88 boot floppy and the
>> >   Alpha CD.  This makes it easier to customize ISO's locally by being able
>> >   to replace either the mfsroot or the kernel w/o having to do both.  It
>> >   also
>> >   allows us to switch to using the full GENERIC kernel when booting from
>> >   CD
>> >   on the Alpha and on x86 when using cdboot.  We don't do this yet,
>> >   however.
>> >   
>> >   Tested on:      x86, alpha
>> 
>> This doesn't kill write_mfs_in_kernel, but it is now no longer used.  The
>> only
>> user of it now is picoBSD.  It should probably move to /usr/bin or something
>> out of src/release however.  Or perhaps under src/release/picobsd.
> 
> Is it?  I'm not sure that picobsd does use it anymore.

It doesn't?  It used to at lesat because that gave you more room on the floppy
since you didn't lose ~200k to the loader.

> Joe

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