Subject: Re: Compiled reply.
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/13/2000 13:21:48
At 11:34 AM -0400 7/13/00, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>The floppy uses the GENERIC-MD kernel, as I recall, but you can't just
>write that kernel to a disk. That's why the boot.fs is supplied, it's
>written to a <GACK> file system, mounted from there (obviously) into
>an mfs one. All of this wrapped in a way that makes OF happy (it wants
>to see an HFS-like partition to boot files out of).
>
>(<GACK> because I can't remember the name... vfs?)

That's vnd.  Also man vnconfig.

As Dr. Bill said there's more to it.


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