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Correct for mfsroot.flp now.

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Jordan K. Hubbard 1998-12-06 20:38:49 +00:00
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@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ This release still uses only one installation floppy, the boot.flp
image. For convenience (and for the DEC ALPHA architecture, on which
binaries are quite a bit larger), however, we also provide the
functionality of boot.flp now "decoupled" into a kern.flp image,
which contains just the boot kernel, and mfsroot.gz, which contains
which contains just the boot kernel, and mfsroot.flp, which contains
the compressed MFS root image that is normally stored as part of
the kernel itself on the boot.flp image. This allows you to boot
from kern.flp, which will fit on a 1.44MB floppy even on the alpha,
and then load mfsroot.gz from a 2nd floppy. This also allows you
and then use mfsroot.flp from a 2nd floppy. This also allows you
to easily make your own boot or MFS floppies should you need to customize
some aspect of the installation process. As long as the kernel is compiled
with ``options MFS'' and ``options MFS_ROOT'', it will properly
boot an mfsroot.gz image when run. The mfsroot.gz image is simply
with ``options MFS'' and ``options MFS_ROOT'', it will properly look for
and boot an mfsroot.flp image when run. The mfsroot.flp image is simply
a gzip'd filesystem image, something which can be made rather
easily using vnconfig(8). If none of this makes any sense to you,
don't worry about it - just use the boot.flp image as always; nothing
@ -55,6 +55,3 @@ or
work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).
The only image which is copied onto a floppy as an ordinary file is
mfsroot.gz, should you actually be using that image for something.