From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 1 10:51:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from updraft.jp.freebsd.org (updraft.jp.FreeBSD.ORG [210.157.158.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D7737B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by updraft.jp.freebsd.org (8.11.3+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet id f41HpE850264 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:51:15 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: References: <20010502020312K.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-Face: '*aj"d@ijeQ:/X}]oM5c5Uz{ZZZk90WPt>a^y4$cGQp8:!H\W=hSM;PuNiidkc]/%,;6VGu e+`&APmz|P;F~OL/QK%;P2vU>\j4X.8@i%j6[%DTs_3J,Fff0)*oHg$A.cDm&jc#pD24WK@{,"Ef!0 P\):.2}8jo-BiZ?X&t$V X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (alfalfa) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 16 From: Makoto MATSUSHITA To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Set up loader to boot cd Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:51:01 +0900 Message-Id: <20010502025101M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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