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Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?



In article <8738i2dp0n.fsf%inbox.ru@localhost>, Aleksej Saushev  
<asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:57:42PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>>> As I understand original question, there's some wish to use media
>with original FAT32.
>>
>> Like /usr/mdec/bootxx_msdos? This is a primary bootstrap which loads /boot
>> from a msdos partition.
>>
>> Dosboot is like chainbooting from MS-DOS (running in real mode, not 32bit),
>> very hard to arrange for nowadays.
>
>It is a bit of surprise to me that bootxx_msdos exists,
>yet it isn't clear enough from documentation which file system(s) it supports.
>

You can boot and run NetBSD on MSDOSFS root. Devices are handled by mounting
an mfs devfs, and permissions of course are not implemented etc.

christos



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