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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Uh- this is *after* the terminal type question is asked. Is that question
> > asked prior to mounting root?
> 
> Well, actually, root's already mounted at the point that you get asked
> that question - it's the MFS partition.  You don't get a new root
> until you've installed and rebooted.

Then confusion certainly is our shared emotion about this....

> 
> > Of course. That's the way to take a 2MB image and try and install from it? I
> > mean, I don't have any 2MB floppy drives.
> 
> OK, just making sure.  It's still unusual to see this. :)
> 
> - Jordan
> 



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