Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/11/2005 11:09:27
In article <87oe70fjje.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
perry@piermont.com wrote:

> > BTW, INSTALL has file-system EXT2FS and NTFS, so we should
> > have mount_ext2fs(8) and mount_ntfs(8) in ramdiskbin too?
> > Or it's okay to disable these file-systems in INSTALL?
> 
> Traditionally, we had those there so people could extract sets off
> their other partitions. I don't think we should remove these. We
> should just move to three floppies.

Current ramdiskbin doesn't contain mount_ext2fs(8) and mount_ntfs(8)
so few people could use these file-systems at least on installation
though they could use existing binaries on their disks for recovery
if INSTALL kernel supports them.
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Izumi Tsutsui