Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:31:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c Message-ID: <199504251931.VAA06779@jette.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504250750.AAA16091@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Apr 25, 95 00:50:36 am
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[Moved to -hackers, i'm almost sure Terry wouldn't like to miss this one. :)] > > From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c > [Poul's change allowing to have an MFS root f/s] > So we could boot from tape RSN? > > I don't know if you were serious, but given that we're down to one > floppy for install, why do we care? Since i could put whatever i want onto the fixit tape. Or i could easily make a set out of a single floppy and a single tape for a complete FreeBSD install. Anyway, i'm afraid the SCSI controller BIOSes would not be willing to hook tape drives to any accessible BIOS interface, so this is certainly not much more than a (mis)thought. It would be really nice if we had SCSI controllers that could boot off a tape. Would give us ``workstation feeling''. :) Perhaps this item should go into the TODO file for people with too much time to burn... Jörg
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