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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 ;-))

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