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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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