From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 21:52:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA13132 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:52:02 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13122 ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:52:00 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA05143; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:51:59 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504250451.VAA05143@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Testers please! To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1103 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'