From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 01:50:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13454 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13445 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA05004 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:50:30 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA19284 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:50:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id LAA10074 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:47:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603310947.LAA10074@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:47:20 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Mar 30, 96 07:33:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)