Subject: Re: LFS as root File-System.
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/15/2001 09:15:15
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:12:28PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:

 > There is enough room in the first 8K of a ffs or lfs partition for this,
 > assuming such a partition is the first partition in the NetBSD `slice'
 > (DOS partition) of the disk.  This would normally be the case, of course.
 > You only have to skip the 2nd sector (where the disklabel is stored :);
 > leaving you with a 0.5K chunk and a 7K chunk...

It's not a matter of space in the disk location, it's a matter of PC
braindamage.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>