Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:28:15 +0400 (MSD) From: Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980706162550.287K-100000@kong.dorms.spbu.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980706095339.16181F-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Hi! On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, 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. I think, in that case we will need some system files with "extended attributes", like in OS/2-on-FAT, to keep longnames (FAT16), ownership and file modes. :) It's not so good solution, but without this we will have no security at all :( Adios, /KONG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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