Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980420110859.12552C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199804190519.HAA11593@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> About the discussion on minbsd, I am curious:
>
> can we mount the root partition from MSDOSFS or CD9660 ?
>
> I know we can have it from UFS or NFS, but not sure about other
> filesystem types (unless one plays tricks with root in mfs as it is
> done on the boot floppy...).
CD9660 - yes (look into /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c). MSDOSFS - no, but from
the above-mentioned code it looks like relatively simple thing to do...
this would be great to have.
Andrzej Bialecki
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