Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:05:12 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 10:35:06PM -0500 References: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson scribbled this message on Nov 17: > I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the > need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would > be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). why not dedicate 32megs of another hard drive to a backup root? I've now decided to put a 32meg root on all hard drives even if they aren't going to normally boot from... (what's 32megs from 2gigs? :) ) -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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