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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: any chance of... Date: 30 Mar 93 21:00:03 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 23 Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar30210003@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <1993Mar30.163132.6284@cs.wisc.edu> <1pacj7INNqid@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at's message of 30 Mar 1993 23:03:35 +0200 In article <1pacj7INNqid@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >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.) that's the one problem i'd not quite figured out... 8-) one could put init, sh, fsck, mount, unmount, and cp on the same disk as the kernel and make a *absolutely* minimal copy-a-new-kernel disk, w/o sacrificing much to simplicity. i've almost got a solution to the "what about device nodes?!" problem done... 8-) however, it will be on hold until i get some other things done... chris -- Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu In case you didn't know: There are blondes and bogons in the VM system!