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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!oka.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Subject: Re: any chance of... Message-ID: <1993Mar30.163132.6284@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin CS Dept References: <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> <JKH.93Mar30023319@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> <CGD.93Mar29223017@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 16:31:32 GMT Lines: 25 In article <CGD.93Mar29223017@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > >another worthwhile solution is: > > [...deleted code to prompt for a different root floppy...] > >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. > I like this idea... In fact, it might even free up enough space so that we could have only *one* set of floppies (kernel + root) with enough useful stuff on it for both fixing problems and performing installations. Wouldn't that make life simpler? Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!