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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with vnode needed. Date: 15 Jun 1996 17:45:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4puss9$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960608145318.14152A-100000@unian.kiev.ua> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Charlie <zsv@unian.freenet.kiev.ua> wrote: > Tell me please, how can i make filesystem in a file. vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 /path/to/file disklabel -Brw vn0 auto (*) disklabel -e vn0 [edit your partitions] newfs -d0 /dev/rvn0a (*) ``auto'' requires 2.2-current, or a recent 2.1-stable. For earlier systems, you have to setup an entry in /etc/disktab. > And how tell Kernel to use some like 'c:\user\zsv\rootfs.dat' as rootfs. No idea on this, i don't have a dos f/s. I don't think it's even possible, since the vnode driver requires a previous vnconfig to work, so it's not possible to use it as root f/s. You could analyze the way the boot kernels are done, and experiment with a MFS root file system however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)