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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Comment on stuffing more on the boot floppies... Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 13:36:37 GMT Message-ID: <C4uz51.98D@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <JDOLTER.93Mar30230743@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu> <C4rnuB.Fv7@sugar.neosoft.com> Lines: 12 In <C4rnuB.Fv7@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >How hard would it be to have a floppy that booted into an MFS *root*? Tricky. MFS is implemented as a kernel process. I'd say it's easier to write a RAM disk driver that loads the filesystem image from floppy during the open. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug Gwyn--I only care whether Doug Gwyn is cool enough to quote. -- Larry Wall