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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD -- What happened to my loadfd command? Date: 30 Oct 1992 11:56:49 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1cr7u1INN9fi@Germany.EU.net> References: <Oct.29.18.06.59.1992.22100@ocean.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>, eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: > : floppy as a filesystem (a la 'mount /pcfs' in SunOS)??? > I do not like it. It makes OS more complex to understand. > It is already being done for CDROM, but it is meant for SCSI driver only If it can be left out (like the CDROM driver), I don't see your point. As an aside: It might be quite fun being able to access any old DOS FS: Just boot from a floppy, mount C: and do whatever else is on the floppy - ftp, uucp,... :) Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV