Subject: Re: Mkfs 1.45 problems
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/01/1998 17:54:59
Bob Nestor wrote:
> Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> >We need to make this VERY CLEAR. Filesystems made by newfs are not
> >compatable with the installer. They're close, but not quite.
> 
> I know the BSD 4.4 filesystem created by default in newfs is not 
> compatible with the Installer, but I thought the one created with "newfs 
> -O" was.  I could swear that's how I installed my last system and it's 
> still up and running.  Have I been saved by dumb luck and intense 
> stupidity?  ;-)

I think you're right, Bob.  I assume that Bill meant "by newfs using the
defaults"....

BTW, is anyone working on adding newfs support to Mkfs and the Installer,
or are we just going to wait until we can use newfs directly from a
miniroot and install in a similar fashion?

-Colin