Subject: Re: Initial installation of NetBSD
To: None <greywolf@captech.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/23/1995 05:23:27
> * If the miniroot is in swap:
> *
> * Teach NetBSD to use the swap drive as a file system, and not
> * to swap, of course ;)
> *
> * This miniroot would then newfs the partitions, configure the
> * net, prompt for floppies, etc.
> *
> * Thoughts?
>
>The problem with having the miniroot installed in swap is the same
>problem from which StunOS suffers now: You can't then change the
>size of the root partition. (I'm applying this to the i386 port as
>there currently is no choice under the SPARC port.)
I was assuming the partitions would be set up already, and all that
needed to be done was to load the binaries and such on the root and
usr partitions.
--Michael
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