Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 04:59:55 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: imp@rover.village.org, Shimon@i-Connect.Net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, pechter@lakewood.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick Message-ID: <199707221859.EAA05909@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>: a. Increases the size and complexity of a minimal kernel to include >: another file system not necessarily needed otherwise. > >Not necessarily. If you have a /boot/kernel that is a on FAT and a >/kernel that is on a ufs partition, then you needn't have MSDOS >support in your kernel. mtools would suffice. Not the most desirable Yes, at a cost of only 8 times as large (for the size of the mtools package tar gunzipped vs. the size of the msdos LKM), we could avoid having msdos support in the kernel. >: c. Makes FreeBSD (installation) dependant on MicroSoft. > >Not necessarily. Booting off a FAT file system doesn't mean booting >MS-DOS. However, that would require separate boot blocks than are >standard, or to have a boot loader that is named MSDOS.SYS. DOS is required to run chkdsk or scandisk, until we have an msdosfsck. It isn't required to boot. >: d. Allows everyone with a dos floppy (or without) to modify/destroy the >: O/S. > >They can do that now :-) At least without the dos floppy :-). Bruce
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