From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jan 29 20:36:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 714C814DA4; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623ED1CD812; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:36:32 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Kurt Seel Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alien filesystem booting? In-Reply-To: <38931C91.DE2C0FF0@utcorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Kurt Seel wrote: > 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? You'd be better off asking on freebsd-fs - but I don't think FreeBSD can do this at present. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message