8 Aug
2019
8 Aug
'19
3:43 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:40 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
This obviated the need to copy a filesystem to a new
disk's swap space and
then use that to really install the system.
Thanks for the reminder. I don't remember if V7 on the PDP-11 used the
swap space (but I don't think so). That said, I fairly sure that by BSD 4.1
the boot loader did, which I think is when that trick was first added to
boot phase.
Again, it was all about trying to get rid of the special /stand version of
things. Funny, history would move on and we come back to that idea with
busybox 🤔