From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 5 23:32:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27848 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp5.portal.net.au [202.12.71.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27843 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02994; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812060730.XAA02994@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mark Turpin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:07:59 PST." <4711.912917279@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:30:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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