In message <Pine.NEB.4.43.0202281205550.971-100000@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Sa
mpson writes:
>The 20011221-1.5ZA snapshot appears to be too corrupt to use. Newfs
>is known to be broken (both on the install floppies and in the main
>system), dump has blown up for me, and god knows what else could
>go wrong.

Yup.  I was able to do okay by installing the snapshot, using the old
1.5W floppies.

>If there's no objection, I'm going to delete this snapshot.
>Please cc responses to me directly to make sure I receive them.

Sounds reasonable.

So, hypothetically, if I thought one of my alphas might be able to do
a functional snapshot, what's the procedure look like?

-s