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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Mach 3.0: what's missing?
Keywords: micro-kernel hackers kit
Message-ID: <3444@engadm3.csd.mot.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 00:15:57 GMT
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Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA
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(I posted this from Portal before, but it hasn't made it here.  I
assume it disappeared.)

The Mach 3.0 release kit from CMU appears to have almost everything
you need to cross-compile a micro-kernel from 386 UNIX, and
test your own raw Mach programs.  Except: what's the Boot File
System?  Is it the BSD 4.2 Fast File System format?  If so, can you
just download 'mkfs' from the BSD freed sources, build a boot floppy
disk from UNIX/386 using the 'proto' option, and then reboot Mach
from that floppy?

If not, what else is missing?  I don't mean UNIX.  I don't want UNIX,
I just want to write raw Mach.

Thanks,

Lance