From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 20 14:28:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25175 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24967 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:27:32 GMT (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09538; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crab.whistle.com(207.76.205.112), claiming to be "whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009530; Mon Apr 20 21:19:46 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA05442; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199804202117.OAA05442@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) In-Reply-To: <199804190519.HAA11593@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Apr 19, 98 07:19:26 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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