Subject: Re: What happens when the floppy's too big?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/10/2001 16:48:58
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:39:21PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > 	Does it really need MFS?
> >
> > Um, was that meant to be a joke?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that MFS is direly necessary to the install process
> > working at all, no? (That is, the bootloader gets the kernel off
> > disk, which creates an MFS partition of a reasonable size for use
> > for sysinst.)
>
> Yes it is. :-)

	Sorry - when I was working with the 1.4 sysinst on vax and sparc
	I'm pretty sure it wasn't required then - it all just ran from
	md0.

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