Mon Mar 28 14:52:12 EST 2005 rsc
I'm unhappy about losing support for reading from kfs partitions,
but maybe that's not too common a case. (I hadn't realized that
that went away before. I thought Tim told me he kept that. But
kfs is definitely gone from the proto file.)
I'm more unhappy about losing support for reading ext2 partitions.
I think a Linux user installing from their Linux partition is
probably a much more common case than the kfs one, now.
I added fcp to the proto file, per Tim's warning.
Instead of putting the venti binaries in the floppy, why not
make a separate venti formatting pass that happens after
the file system has been initialized? Then we can use the
Venti binaries from the new file system and not need floppy
space.
Also, if we're going to rename /n/kfs, let's call it /n/newfs
so that it's clear what it is. There are too many /n paths
and I've forgotten which is which.
Thanks for the patch. I'm glad to see the install program
being updated. If you submit a new patch that addresses
the above I'll apply it.
Russ
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