On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 15:17:18 -0700 
 Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote:

 > Also, generic NetBSD/i386 1.2D snapshot question: Where on the boot floppy
 > is the "netbsd.gz" kernel stored?  When the floppy boots, if you quit out

...netbsd.gz is in the root of the file system on the floppy...

 > of the install, "mount" shows "root_device on /", but there's no "netbsd.gz"
 > there.  I assume it's in another partition (arggh, I *hate* "root_device",

...right... that's because the root file system in that kernel is a ramdisk
that is statically written into the belly of the kernel :-)

 > can't we please use good ol' "/dev/fd0a" or whatnot?!?), but where?  I can't

...err, because the file system code, at mount time, doesn't know that
the path to the root device will be... it is updated later.

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