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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time!
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>> I don't like it.  It requires extra utilities.  It stops binary
>> utilities (e.g., nm) from working right on the kernel.  It slows down
>> booting.  When the kernel grows a little over 640K or the disk grows a

>Uh, Bruce.  The kzip'd kernel is overlayed the minute the bindist is
>extracted (and there are no utilities like nm available to get
>confused by it up to that point anyway!).

There's ddb.

>It's only for the install.  After that, it's gone!

How do you debug installs without ddb?  panic("cannot mount root") is
a common error for new installations and is very easy to debug using
ddb.

Bruce