Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:17:09 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <2949.912831429@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 17:48:52 PST." <199812050148.RAA01551@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> At the moment, the current exploratory strategy is the split kern.flp/
> mfsroot.gz arrangement. It's probably going to make more sense just to
> have them as two floppy images for distribution purposes.
If the mfsroot image is a UFS filesystem containing an mfsroot.gz
file, I'm all for it. I just don't want to lose our newfound ability
to say: "There's really nothing special about building MicroFreeBSD
systems for installation or any other purpose anymore - just take any
kernel with MFS_ROOT turned on and any gzip'd UFS filesystem for its
root and Bob's yer uncle!" Or something to that effect. Anyway, I
still agree with the argument that it's nice to not have to treat them
separately if you're just a novice user so maybe that's what we'll do.
Hasn't been that big a deal yet since most can still use the single
boot.flp.
Hmmmmm. For that matter, we could make sure that the mfsroot was also
a bootable floppy image with a /boot/boot.4th file on it which said:
: yell 7 emit ." NO, BOOT THE OTHER FLOPPY, YOU KNOB!" cr ;
yell
key drop
reset
Or something to that effect. :-)
- Jordan
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