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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:26:55 +0930."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:33:27 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I made my position clear some time back; while the bootstrap continues
> to preferentially read ufs filesystems, all the boot-time components
> should be in a separate directory.  If we assume that this is /boot,
> then there would be no pain at all in updating /boot/help.default etc.
> when /usr/mdec was updated.

Hmmm.  It's a slightly divergent topic, but I guess I should also say
that I favor putting these new foo.config files into a /boot
subdirectory here and now before they get doc'd in too many places.
I think too many new files have gone into / at this point.

					Jordan