From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 05:07:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02561 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:07:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02555 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA50840; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:06:58 -0800 (PST) To: Robert Nordier cc: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Nov 1998 14:55:27 +0200." <199811251255.OAA16516@ceia.nordier.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:06:57 -0800 Message-ID: <50832.911999217@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The umsdos solution was generalized to a file system layer approach > which could accommodate a FreeBSD slice on any (not necessarily > MS-DOS) file system which supports 255 character filenames. > > As with most things, the issues aren't really technical: the people > doing the boot work just don't want this stuff badly enough to > spend time making it happen (eg. I don't even have MS-DOS or Windows > installed these days.) Well, the only residual interest I have in the problem is for FreeBSD demo systems, where you want to hand someone an 80MB zip file (ala Slackware's "zipslack") which they unpack into C:\FREEBSD and then run something which creates a suitable boot disk for it (unless the boot-from-Windows issues can be fully worked out) and lets them try it out without sacrificing more space. If they can mount /usr/X11R6 from CD or something after that, all the better for your typical kiosk demo. Yes, it would be sort of useful. Useful enough to pay for, I think. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message