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Date:      Wed, 02 May 2001 02:51:01 +0900
From:      Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Set up loader to boot cd
Message-ID:  <20010502025101M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105011014020.4300-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
References:  <20010502020312K.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105011014020.4300-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>

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maillist> What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy
maillist> image, and mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as
maillist> /usr on top of that?

Simply 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /usr' (or whatever CD device) after
booting a kernel is not enough for you? I've not tried yet, but there
is no reason to fail (if it fails, it means that you cannot install
FreeBSD from your CD drive.)

maillist> I don't quite understand how loader works, though....

Obviously, mounting a filesystem is not a loader(8)'s job :-)

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Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA

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