Subject: Re: advice on upgrading to 1.2
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@og.org>
From: Lt Avram Dorfman <dorfman@hq.hq.af.mil>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/05/1996 20:58:08
Ok then...

Is there anything in the etc12 tarball that must or should be updated? Or 
can I skip it altogether?

-1LT Avram Dorfman
HQ USAF Network Management
permanent email address: avram@pobox.com

Q: Ounce for ounce, how good is a PC running Windows?
A: :%s/windows *\([0-9]*\) MHz, \([0-9]*\) MB/mac \1\/2 MHz, \2\/2 MB/g

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Scott Reynolds wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Lt Avram Dorfman wrote:
> 
> > I suppose I'm dreaming, but is there any chance I can just plain install 
> > 1.2 pretending that /u1 is /, and then mount my g partition as / and my 
> > a partition as /junk? /u1 doesn't have any OS stuff on it, just user 
> > accounts.
> > 
> > Or is it truely impossible for the system to boot from a non-a partition?
> 
> It's not impossible, but you'll need a custom kernel that expects to see
> root on the `g' partition instead of the `a' partition.
> 
> --scott
>