Subject: Re: Crosscompiling
To: None <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/29/1999 18:37:52
> > [...] Hmm, do we support root on an MSDOS/FAT filesystem?
> > There's nothing to say the the install kernels that have a
> > memory disk need to have FFS on them...
> >
> > Of course there are other things like setting owner/group/perms
> > inside of the generated release tar files, but this shouldn't be
> > too hard...
>
> For boot floppies, usually you also need to install boot blocks.
> I'm not sure how well that would work without the filesystem being
> mounted from a vnd..

There's also the issue of supporting device nodes on an MSDOS/FAT
file system.

- H=E5vard