Subject: Re: README: setroot changes that affect you!
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@unna.ping.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/01/1997 19:03:26
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In message <199702010232.SAA28741@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>you write:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:18:40 -0800 (PST)
> Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com> wrote:
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> > Will this new syntax work with:
> >
> > config netbsd root on ? type ffs swap on sd0b and sd1b
>
> Interesting that you bring it up... :-)
>
> I actually made a concious decision to _not_ support this. Leo Weppleman,
> the atari port-master, asked about this before I committed it to the
> tree... My rationale for not allowing that syntax is that, very soon,
> the swdevt[] will go away, and swap will be added dynamically to devices,
So that leads to the fact, that I cannot track current on all my i386 boxes
because they all have a minimalistic swap partition on the root-disk, i.e.
they will not work at all for the things they are destined to.
Is there a manual way around this?
Gruesse
Oskar
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