From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jan 29 8:57:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from x-montana.utcorp.com (x-montana.utcorp.com [146.145.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CAE14E7B for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 08:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kseel@utcorp.com) Received: from utcorp.com (x-kspc.utcorp.com [146.145.135.17]) by x-montana.utcorp.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA31586 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:59:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kseel@utcorp.com) Message-ID: <38931C91.DE2C0FF0@utcorp.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:00:01 -0500 From: Kurt Seel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alien filesystem booting? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Excuse me if this sounds unnatural, but ... Has anyone ever looked at making FBSD boot off of an msdos filesys? Could the vn driver be used as a root file system perhaps? Or is long file naming in the msdos file system in the kernel good enough to use an msdos file system as root? Am i even asking this on the right group? -- "The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Bohr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message