Subject: Re: md_root.c (Re: CVS commit: syssrc)
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/03/2000 09:35:25
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:57:46PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Leo Weppelman wrote:
> 
> > > On the other hand, maybe it reads the ramdisk from a floppy or something?
> >
> > Not maybe... it does. It reads the install filesystem from floppy into
> > the md-disk.
> 
> 	Just curious - does this offer any advantage over the inkernel
> 	ramdisk and ustarfs support? (Maybe the ability to run the
> 	install filesystem from floppy with a different kernel?)

I honestly don't know ;-) It has been quite a while since I looked in 
distrib/i386/floppies...

Leo.