What about creating a mfsroot.gz as part of that boot floppy image, and
mounting that as root, then mounting the cd as /usr on top of that?
Let me know if you think that will work....
I don't quite understand how loader works, though.... Handbook doesn't
tell me enough.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Rick Duvall
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote:
>
> maillist> 4.2-20010119-STABLE
>
> My sample ISO image (using latest 4-stable) works very fine, booting
> from CD and mount CD as root partition. It works pretty well.
>
> If you have enough bandwidth to fetch 160MB ISO image file, try:
>
><URL:ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/live-releng4.iso>
>
> Also, I've tried to do with 5-current, kernel *can't* mount CD as a
> root partition. If you wanna try how it goes to fail, try:
>
><URL:ftp://current.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/live-current.iso>
>
> I've sent a email before to [EMAIL PROTECTED], does anybody know why
> 5-current kernel can't mount my CD-ROM as a root partition?
>
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