From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 30 15:44:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24049 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:44:45 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA24044 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:44:41 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA00997 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:44:34 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA27013 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:44:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA09072 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:42:25 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510302342.AAA09072@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:42:25 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Oct 30, 95 05:03:16 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 532 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > > > man boot. > > And tell me, how the heck am I going to read that if I can't get the > *#$(*@ system to boot in the first place? By documentation provided along with the boot image file. For example the excellent handbook. :) It's impossible to put the entire README into the bootstrapper anyway. I'm really afraid of too much bloat here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)