From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 16:26:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19010 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA19001 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA23840; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:26:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id BAA08273; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:11:05 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:11:04 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor suggestion for 2.2 boot/fixit.flp References: <199701141431.JAA24436@snow.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701141431.JAA24436@snow.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Jan 14, 1997 09:31:37 -0500 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Gallatin wrote: > As the subject says, I have a minor suggestion for the 2.2 boot/fixit > floppies -- It would be really nice to have the block and character > devices files for the at least the partitions in the second slice of > sd0 & wd0 in /dev on the boot floppy (and maybe sd1 & wd1, and all 4 > slices on each disk if there is room). The boot floppies are always in serious lack of space, including i-node space. That's why many things are missing there. With the fixit floppy, you can always refer to /mnt2/dev/something if /dev/something isn't there -- the dev tree on the fixit floppy should be much more complete to begin with (and since it's a static filesystem on a floppy, you are free to customize it before using). In addition, i've recently fixed the last remaining bug that prevented MAKEDEV from running, so this should help you out if you're lost. Sorry, it's simply impossible to satisfy all needs when being tight on space. 5 `standard' slices (0 through 4) on 4 `standard' disks (wd0, wd1, sd0, sd1) with 8 partitions each, in raw and buffered version each, are 1280 i-nodes. That's pretty much to begin with, and it doesn't even cover extended slices (partitions). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)