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Date:      Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:57:33 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, <ia64@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Not all devices get attached 
Message-ID:  <20011006095607.Y530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011006060403.0F0DD380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:41:10PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > >
> > > You can newfs under FreeBSD/i386.  It is not 64 bit dependant, just endian
> > > dependant.
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have a machine in which I can mount the disk.
> > So I'm forced to revert to hackery :-)
> >
> > > Did you notice I left you some spare space to do that with BTW? :-)
> >
> > I did, but I didn't think it was enough :-)
> > I installed Roswell (RH beta) and reserved roughly half the disk
> > for FreeBSD. Once it boots (as it does now) we probably want to
> > get world...
>
> Hmm.  I thought I left about 4GB of space for you to install as a freebsd
> patition.
>
> FYI: made it to single user on disk! :-)

Cool. I guess you re-built init and sh?

>
> > BTW: Now that David has stopped maintaining gcc, has someone
> > stepped in to take over?
>
> Unless a source package turns up by tomorrow, I will start building one
> myself tomorrow (or maybe even tonight).
>
> I'm a bit worried about ld-elf.so.1 though.  I think the first worlds will
> be static-only.

I've been thinking a lot about rtld-elf. I can do this but I probably
won't bother for a while.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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