Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:47:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603310947.LAA10074@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960330184426.206B-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Mar 30, 96 07:33:53 pm
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As Andreas Klemm wrote: > I think you're deadly right in this point... > A simple nice boot disk with a generic kernel with tools like: > fsck, scsi, ed, cat, more, newfs, mkfs, ls, rm ... and ,friends' is > badly needed ;-) It won't work. People demand too much to fit onto a single floppy, so splitting off /kernel onto a second one doesn't seem to be so bad either. > And of course a nicely working MAKEDEV, that creates the needed /dev/ > entries, if you have for example 2 SCSI disks and perhaps even more. It can go away with the advent of devfs. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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