From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: Disk a2 should really be RAWRITE'd? Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 22:17:25 GMT
ngps@stargate.np.ac.sg (Ng Pheng Siong) writes:
>In article <1993May28.201140.7121@eunet.ch> mu@pax.eunet.ch (Kurt Mueller) writes:
>>ngps@stargate.np.ac.sg (Ng Pheng Siong) writes:
>>: And it pays to repeat: gunzip a2's diska2.z.
>>Why ? What ?
>
>Coz the docs sayes to rawrite a2, but a2's not a raw image.
>New users get thrown off when they stick in a2 regardless and
>see a "wrong disk" error message because sysinstall cannot
>find diska2.
I did rawrite of a2 and it worked just fine. It did not need to be
shipped as a raw image, since in fact it was a filesystem. Apparently
it was a raw image of a filesystem (and you would need to do rawrite to
restore that kind of thing).
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