*BSD News Article 13757


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!cgd
From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 30 Mar 93 21:00:03
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar30210003@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1993Mar30.163132.6284@cs.wisc.edu> <1pacj7INNqid@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at's message of 30 Mar 1993 23:03:35 +0200

In article <1pacj7INNqid@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes:
>And how do you copy the distributed kernel onto the hard disk ?
>(Without having a compressed copy of the kernel on the root disk, of course.)

that's the one problem i'd not quite figured out...  8-)


one could put init, sh, fsck, mount, unmount, and cp on the same disk as the
kernel and make a *absolutely* minimal copy-a-new-kernel disk,
w/o sacrificing much to simplicity.


i've almost got a solution to the "what about device nodes?!" problem
done...  8-)  however, it will be on hold until i get some other
things done...



chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

 In case you didn't know: There are blondes and bogons in the VM system!