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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:31:58 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) 
Message-ID:  <199804201531.IAA00455@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:17:59 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980420110859.12552C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > About the discussion on minbsd, I am curious:
> > 
> > can we mount the root partition from MSDOSFS or CD9660 ?
> > 
> > I know we can have it from UFS or NFS, but not sure about other
> > filesystem types (unless one plays tricks with root in mfs as it is
> > done on the boot floppy...).
> 
> CD9660 - yes (look into /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c). MSDOSFS - no, but from
> the above-mentioned code it looks like relatively simple thing to do...
> this would be great to have.

You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need 
DEVFS for this to work.

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