On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:58:50 -0800 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Is the problem that sysisnt is running out of space on the root
 > ramdisk?  if so, why not create (newfs) a new ramdisk and mount it as
 > /tmp?  There's no need to carry `free [ramdisk[ space' around in the
 > intialized data segment if we can create it on the fly.

In fact, the hp300 shell script installer uses MFS for /tmp, and creates
several shadow files there.

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