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* Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> [2004-01-11 13:34 -0800]:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> > > Now, who wants to give this a try?
> > 
> > OK, I tried now the following:
> > 
> > I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the
> > kernel and mfsroot to another floppy and added two appropriate
> > splitfiles.
> > 
> > Afterwards booting from these four disks worked fine.
> 
> OK, someone help me out here :)
> I was going to try this with a range of floppies (4.8, 4.9, 5.1, 5.2,
> etc), but I can't figure out what to do with splitfs.c

Do nothing, the loader already contains it.

Nicolas