Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com> wrote:

>It's a matter of personal taste, mostly. I've experimented with it both
>ways, and it doesn't seem to matter much, either way. I can think of a
>couple reasons to have a seperate root partition. 1) The mac68k booter
>only works with old-style 4.2BSD partitions. A seperate /usr can use the
>new 4.3 filesystem, after being made with newfs. 

It's true that both Mkfs and the Installer only deal with 4.2BSD type 
filesystems, but is this also true for the Booter?  I could swear I made 
my current root partition a 4.4BSD type and it's been booting just fine 
for months using the latest Booter.

-bob