freebsd

[Alex Snow]

ah...so that's my problem.
I'll have to find a freebsd box to get an account on so I can finish 
these disks.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:01:24AM -0600, 
Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help:
> 
> UFS file system support (read-only)
> CONFIG_UFS_FS
>   BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
>   OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
>   Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
>   this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
>   these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
>   experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
>   file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
> 
>   If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
>   network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
>   you need NFS file system support obviously).
> 
>   Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
>   good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
>   (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
>   tar" or preferably "info tar").
> 
>   When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
>   NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
>   recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
> 
>   If you want to compile the UFS file system support as a module ( =
>   code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel
>   whenever you want), say M here and read
>   <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module will be called ufs.o.
> 
>   If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
> 
> UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)
> CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE
>   Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
>   experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
>  
> Greg
> 
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:52:20AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm trying to mount the kern.flp freebsd install disk so I can 
> > modify it for installation using serial terminal.
> > what fs should I mount this as? bc it mounts it as ufs but I cant right 
> > to it even though it says it's rw.
> > 
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