From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 20 08:37:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15680 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15492 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:37:23 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00455; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804201531.IAA00455@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:31:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need DEVFS for this to work. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message