Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:28:15 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <19980706132815.42445@hightek.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980706095339.16181F-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:32:14AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980706095339.16181F-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > The second issue is this: currently we're unable to boot (using BIOS) and > mount as / other filesystems than FFS, NFS and CD9660. It would be great > if we could use MSDOSFS as well (using special version of biosboot, with > FAT support compiled-in instead of FFS). Device nodes would be on DEVFS. > > What for? This could help get rid of fbsdboot.exe and related troubles - > we could just directly start and run (and install!) on MSDOS partition. Like Solaris x86 ;-) The first two or three floppies are in MS-DOS format ;-)) -- B&K Gruppe - Wuppertal <aklemm@hightek.com> phone +49 202 7399 - 170 <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> fax +49 202 7399 - 100 http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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