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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu!dbx From: dbx@atmos.washington.edu (Doug Burks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Kernels and odd root partitions Date: 30 Oct 1996 16:32:30 GMT Organization: Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Washington Lines: 19 Sender: dbx@cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu (Doug Burks) Message-ID: <557vuu$3td@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: dbx@atmos.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu Greetings, I have been playing around with compiling kernels, especially with different booting environments. The FreeBSD Handbook describes different options available, but I have been unable to find details for some of them. So I have two questions: * How do you create a compressed kernel? The source code points to a kzip script, but I can find no sign of it. * I discovered how to create a MFS root partition, but, how can I initialize it to hold a given filesystem? Thanks for any information or pointers to same! Hoping I haven't overlooked something blatantly obvious, I remain ... Doug Burks dbx@atmos.washington.edu