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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!udel!bogus.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!umeecs!news-server.eecs.umich.edu!jdolter From: jdolter@eecs.umich.edu (James W. Dolter) Subject: Comment on stuffing more on the boot floppies... Message-ID: <JDOLTER.93Mar30230743@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Deptartment Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 04:07:43 GMT Lines: 27 After seeing all the talk about this binary is smaller etc... I thought I would throw this idea into the ring ..... After being frustrated with what I was able to do off of the fixit floppies I constructed a emergency boot floppy that used the same trick that the SUNOS install procedure used to use on the older SUN4 systems. I configured a stripped down kernel that has MFS support. The system boots the kernel and then asks the user to run a bootstrap shell script that mounts a mfs based /usr and /tmp files systems.... Then it gunzips | cpio the binaries that I wanted into the mfs based /usr filesystem ..... Any comments on reasons for not using this type of approach? -- +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | James W. Dolter | Real-Time Computing Laboratory | | Internet: jdolter@sawtooth.eecs.umich.edu | The University of Michigan | | UUCP: umich!umeecs!jdolter | 1301 Beal Ave | | Office: 2222 EECS | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 | | Voice: (313) 763-5363 | | +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+