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 :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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