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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:17:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...)
Message-ID:  <199804202117.OAA05442@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804190519.HAA11593@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Apr 19, 98 07:19:26 am"

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
| 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, I think it was broken in 2.2.5.  Been using it in -current.
Kind of weird watching it boot to multi-user off a CD.  The first login
is really slow.  It would be neat to use the unionfs stuff to mount a
hard-drive over the CD so you could do writes.

Doug A.

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