matthew green wrote:
>    
>    However, since the miniroot.fs is likely being installed from a platform 
>    where gzip is *not* the standard, why make the assumption? The machine I 
>    installed from didn't have gzip.
> 
> gzip has been part of solaris for 2 major releases AFAIR.
> 
> .mrg.

Probably true. However, I'm tending to put NetBSD on machines because 
they won't run 8 or 9. It *is* work-aroundable, just slightly awkward.

Hmm... does that mean we have to start calling it GNU/Solaris and 
GNU/NetBSD?  :)

ciao!

leam