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From: Jeff Blank <jfb@mtu.edu>
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Subject: 5.2-RELEASE miniroot
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Hi,

Can someone clue me in on how sparc64/5.2-RELEASE/miniroot/miniroot.ufs.gz
is to be used?  I can't find any mention of it in the install docs on
the FreeBSD FTP server or web site.  I had assumed it was a bootable
filesystem for starting an installer (like OpenBSD's minirootXX.fs
is), but my Ultra5 refuses to boot it.  I guess I'm not surprised,
though, since it doesn't look much like a filesystem when I view the
first few bytes of the file, and it also seems rather bigger than a
miniroot would need to be.  So I guess at this point, I'm mostly just
curious as to what it's for.

thanks,
Jeff