Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: any chance of... Date: 30 Mar 1993 23:03:35 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1pacj7INNqid@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1993Mar30.163132.6284@cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1993Mar30.163132.6284@cs.wisc.edu> Jon Cargille (jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu) wrote: -> In article <CGD.93Mar29223017@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: -> > -> >another worthwhile solution is: -> > -> > [...deleted code to prompt for a different root floppy...] -> > -> >people shouldn't be booting off floppies, for standard use anyway, -> >and this makes making a install/fixit floppy set that much easier -- -> >more space on the floppies for useful utilities, plus you only -> >need to update one disk if you want a new kernel. -> > -> -> I like this idea... In fact, it might even free up enough space so -> that we could have only *one* set of floppies (kernel + root) with -> enough useful stuff on it for both fixing problems and performing -> installations. -> -> Wouldn't that make life simpler? 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.) -> -> Jon Christoph