On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> I believe so, but it would be best if a commercial package wasn't required
> to install riscbsd easily.  Mind you, if you're about to install Unix, you
> can probably cope with a command line gzip port, provided it is reasonably
> solid and works on a strongarm without knowing magic runes.
> 

  Presumably it won't be long before kernels can decompress the 
md filesystem (and themselves) like Linux can. 

  I seem to remember reading a few months ago about libz being compiled 
into the kernel to enable this sort of thing to be done, but I don't know 
what sort of timescales would be involved.

Ale.