From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 04:28:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA24230 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 04:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sun-test.hightek.com (sun-test.hightek.com [194.74.141.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA24210 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 04:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm2.hightek.com) Received: from klemm2.hightek.com ([195.90.203.76]) by sun-test.hightek.com (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with ESMTP id AAA16943; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:28:17 +0200 Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm2.hightek.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00934; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:28:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980706132815.42445@hightek.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:28:15 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:32:14AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 phone +49 202 7399 - 170 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