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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 11:44:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Yoriaki FUJIMORI <fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DigitalUnix4.0 and recent SRM on PC164LX
Message-ID:  <14510.51071.221166.198759@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200002190952.SAA09881@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
References:  <200002190952.SAA09881@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>

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Yoriaki FUJIMORI writes:

 > Moreover, the operating system CD cannot be read at all on all of
 > PCs and workstations in my lab.
 > 

It is UFS format, with a 512k block size.  Most CDROM readers cannot
handle this.  If you want to read it on a pc, dd the image off the
CD and mount it via vnconfig.  Also, they sometimes leave the image
"dirty", so you might need to forcibly mount it.  

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