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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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