Subject: Re: miniroot
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/26/1996 11:55:10
Valtteri,

Thanks! I'd wondered how to do this. It goes in my how-to list. :-)

Actually, Allen's suggestion worked too (click on the button
rather than just accept the default).

Take care,

Bill

> > I was wondering what I have to do to get a miniroot to work?
> 
> Create a miniroot image file, copy utils to it, copy a kernel to hfs, 
> boot it. At least Booter 1.8 has a 1mb limit on the miniroot size.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=miniroot bs=1024 count=1024
> vnconfig -c /dev/vnd0c miniroot
> newfs /dev/vnd0c ramdisk
> mount /dev/vnd0a mount_point
> 
>  Copy a kernel to a hfs partition and utils onto the miniroot, copy 
> miniroot to hfs, boot with kernel and miniroot image. The ramdisk
> disktab entry is
> 
> ramdisk|ram|miniroot image:\
>         :ty=winchester:ns#512:nt#4:ns#1:\
>         :pa#2048:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\
>         :pb#2048:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\
>         :pc#2048:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512:
> 
> -
> 'Good-bye and hello, as always'
>