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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 29 Mar 93 22:30:17
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Tue, 30 Mar 1993 04:17:06 GMT
In article <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>I asked Bill about this one, and the reason he used cpio on the
>original distribution is because the cpio binary was much smaller
>than the tar binary, and hence they could fit more stuff in the
>distribution floppies.
another worthwhile solution is:
===================================================================
RCS file: /b/source/CVS/src/sys.386bsd/i386/i386/autoconf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -c -r1.1.1.1 autoconf.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1022802 Mon Mar 29 22:27:55 1993
--- autoconf.c Mon Mar 29 22:27:47 1993
***************
*** 165,170 ****
--- 165,177 ----
*/
if (rootdev == orootdev)
return;
+ if (devname[majdev][0] == 'f' && devname[majdev][1] == 'd') {
+ printf("");
+ printf("* insert the floppy you want to have mounted as\n");
+ printf("* root, and hit any key to continue booting:\n");
+ cngetc();
+ printf("");
+ }
printf("changing root device to %c%c%d%c\n",
devname[majdev][0], devname[majdev][1],
mindev >> PARTITIONSHIFT, part + 'a');
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people shouldn't be booting off floppies, for standard use anyway,
and this makes making a install/fixit floppy set that much easier --
more space on the floppies for useful utilities, plus you only
need to update one disk if you want a new kernel.
chris
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