From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 20 13:37:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10173 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10086 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:36:42 GMT (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA25062; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:37:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:37:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Michael Hancock cc: Mike Smith , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need > > DEVFS for this to work. > > Sounds like a good reason to test devfs. > > options DEVFS > > boot -sv > mount -t devfs /dev /dev > > If it works then add ... > > options SLICE > Sounds interesting. :-) When I have some time (i.e. during the weekend) I'll try this. Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message