nope. paqfs doesnt exit. and its not wasting 10mb.

term% ps -a | grep paq
cinap_lenrek        5    0:00   0:00      188K Pread    paqfs

yes, bootrc basicly does the same stuff as the c based /boot/boot
did before. we found that the other 30 odd programs can come in handy.
especially when you try to boot a kernel on a odd machines where
theres no working disks (yet :-)).

the odd machines tend to be owned by people new to plan9 and
being short of patience for getting a pxe setup or attach
serial cables to the machine. but asking them to break into rc
and getting some readout of some ctl files works fine.

ipconfig *is* part of bootfs.paq.

term% ls -l /boot
--r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek   29306 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/boot
--r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek 1327174 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/bootfs.paq
--r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek  241755 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/factotum
--r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek   72165 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/paqfs

factotum is not build into the paq because libauth's auth_getkeys()
execs "/boot/factotum" to ask for passwords/keys. changing that would
break old binaries.

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cinap

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