From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 14:24:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF9737B677 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.20.70.64]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001003212323.RRAI18167.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:23:23 -0700 Message-ID: <39DA4F15.1D1BB997@home.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:26:45 -0700 From: xavian anderson macpherson Organization: http://www.professional3d.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Person, Roderick" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: is there a /boot directory in freebsd as there is in linux? X-Priority: 1 (Highest) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Person, Roderick" wrote: > there is a /boot directory. I don't think it's used the same as in > Linux. The kernel that boots the system is in /. > > Roderick P. Person > Programmer II > Crystal Administrator are there any BSD rules which forbid me from putting the kernel in the directory/partition i now use as /boot? if not, why isn't this widely used to answer the very question of having the `/' directory on a vinum device? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message