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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: Comment on stuffing more on the boot floppies... Date: 30 Mar 93 22:21:01 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 19 Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar30222101@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <JDOLTER.93Mar30230743@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: jdolter@eecs.umich.edu's message of Wed, 31 Mar 1993 04:07:43 GMT In article <JDOLTER.93Mar30230743@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu> jdolter@eecs.umich.edu (James W. Dolter) writes: >The system boots the kernel and then asks the user to run a >bootstrap shell script that mounts a mfs based /usr and /tmp >files systems.... Then it gunzips | cpio the binaries that I >wanted into the mfs based /usr filesystem ..... actually, this is close to the best way to go... the *best* way would be to have a standalone program create said MFS, and tell the kernel to mount it as root, on booting. there are a few disadvantages to this, tho, in that there is no swapping support from a install setup, so memory could run a bit short... chris -- Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu In case you didn't know: There are blondes and bogons in the VM system!