From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 8 7:40:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20191521D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 07:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA31207; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:45:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3826EEF6.4F676BCD@nisser.com> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:40:38 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> <3826EBF5.6FD7794D@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you? And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray tell, does root reside below mnt? > You mean two _slices_, one on the first 1024, and the other at the > end of the disk containing the usual _partitions_ (FreeBSD > terminoloy -- not getting religious here, just clarifying)? This is > a common work-around. Nope, I mean two *partitions*. You see, *I* did RTFM. FYI what you suggest is nonsense. Won't work since that is not the way things work. Would work in, say, Linux, not in FreeBSD. Nor, I think but it's been awhile, in OpenBSD. > AFAIK, it should be relatively trivial. Since we're clearly talking about two different topice I can but agree that what you've got in mind is relatively trivial. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message