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Date:      Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:36:38 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing boot? 
Message-ID:  <35704.912728198@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:08:57 %2B0100." <199812032109.WAA02614@yedi.iaf.nl> 

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> So, I took another angle: grabbed kern.flp and mfsroot from FreeBSD
> SNAP251198. Kern.flp boots OK, then asks for the MFSroot floppy. The .gz
> of mfsroot is: 835517 Dec  3 21:11 mfsroot.gz Ungzipping and vnconfig gives:
> /dev/vn0c        2839     2065      774    73%    /mnt
> 
> So: well over 1.44 Mb floppy size. Question: can the kernel use a gzipped
> mfsroot? 

Yes and no.  You're supposed to just load the gzip'd mfsroot from
the boot blocks which will then handle the actual decompression before
the kernel ever sees it.

- Jordan

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