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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 1997 16:33:17 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        config@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Startup userconfig parsing
Message-ID:  <199704300633.QAA08781@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> It's squeezed by the 7.5K limit.
>
>Any reason this can't be 8.5K these days?  Who boots from 15spt media 
>anymore?

Yes, only 8K is reserved for the boot blocks, and 15spt media is not
uncommon.

>I think you are misunderstanding what I am suggesting.  The file(s) to
>load can be specified in any fashion; if you want to put the
>instructions as to what to load in a file itself, that's fine.  The

It's overengineerd, not fine.

>> ed(1) certainly won't know about what the commands mean :-).
>
>Huh?  Sorry, I missed that one altogether.

Config files are prepared with a text editor.

Bruce



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