Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:51:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Testers please! Message-ID: <199504250451.VAA05143@ref.tfs.com>
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The file ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/fixit_kernel Contains the latest wonder, a complete fixit_floppy in one kernel. Please try and boot it, and tell me what you think. I don't think it will boot on a 4Mb system. (The compressed image is bigger than 1Mb and gets loaded @ 3Mb.) If it says anything about "OnTrack disk manager" please send me email and tell me if it looked right to you. What is it ? It's a kzip'ed (compressed) kernel with a MFS (memory filesystem) root filesystem compiled in. This means that you can boot it from anywhere, including your harddisk (The dos-boot program needs a fix before it will work, but that is underway). Why is that special ? You can remount the root R/W without destroying your fixit-floppy mount -u mfs_root / You can mount another floppy if you want You can boot it of you harddisk/ms-dos partition (soon)/floppy or even over the network (!) Have fun ! -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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