From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 23:26:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02642 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:26:19 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA02631 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:26:15 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04508; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:24:52 +0800 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:24:51 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Bruce Evans cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) In-Reply-To: <199506060532.PAA26953@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Certain methods of copying files (such as tar) silently lose the high > bits in the minor number :-(. cp -pR, dump/restore and `cpio -H newc' > are known to work. I thought the installer created device files on the fly rather than extracting them from the bin tarball? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org