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- From: scott@pascal.geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: Potential kernel mods...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.180032.26153@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:00:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.170421.8951@squid.tram.com> jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
- >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.
-
- Well, last night I compared my hard drive UNIX3.51 with my floppy
- boot "unix" and they are absolutely identical. This implies that
- the boot has some mechanism whereby it can pass the boot device
- along to the kernel for it to patch into "{root,pipe,swap}dev".
- This is not an uncommon practice and is quite a reasonable
- thing to expect from the super hackers at Convergent who
- built this version of UNIX.
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