Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:30:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP Message-ID: <199812060730.XAA02994@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:07:59 PST." <4711.912917279@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > Next question, How was the newfs done for the kern.flp image? However > > that was done it is the same way you need to make the mfsroot > > disk. I had to do the following to get the alpha to read the mfsroot.gz > > disk: > > Yeah, I'm actually amazed that it worked during our x86 tests. Either > that or we were all hallucinating at the time and only *thought* we > saw the mfsroot.gz work as expected. :-) I can easily see how it would > be hard to make a gzip'd filesystem be readable as a filesystem, yes. Er, I used "mount" and "cp" like you watched me do that evening... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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