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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...

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