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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!tram!jeffrey
- From: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
- Subject: Re: Potential kernel mods...
- Organization: Tramway Unix Systems
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:04:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.170421.8951@squid.tram.com>
- References: <1992Aug16.195654.9330@ceilidh.beartrack.com> <1992Aug17.162950.883@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Aug18.021335.391@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
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- In article <1992Aug18.021335.391@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.162950.883@uts.cc.wayne.edu> rwilson@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Ron Wilson) writes:
- >
- >>Another peice of evidence: I once compared the /unix on a bootable floppy to
- >>the /unix on the HD: they are the same. When booting from the floppy, you
- >
- > Ah! This makes it easier for someone without the distribution
- >diskettes to build their own floppy boot disk and floppy filesystem.
- >Excelent bit of information. I'll have to try making a boot floppy this way
-
- Please, don't waste your time doing this. The two unix files are
- *not* the same. Well, they're kind of close.
-
- The **BIG** difference is the values of the symbols rootdev, pipedev,
- (and swapdev?). Right now, they are set for the hard disk. On the
- floppy version, they have been changed so that it uses only the
- floppy.
-
- The easy way to fix this is with adb. However, it was so long ago
- that I did this that I cannot for the life of me remember how to do
- the change.
-
- I **BELIEVE** that you will find a 0 in rootdev and pipedev. You will
- have to change these to a 2 (from /dev/rfp00? to /dev/rfp02?). Don't
- come screaming if this isn't exactly correct. I kind of remember
- this, but I don't wager money on it any more.
-
- j
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