From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 20 02:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16093 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16081 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:16:22 GMT (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA24472; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Luigi Rizzo cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) In-Reply-To: <199804190519.HAA11593@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message