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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:58:25 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/bin/kzip nt working on 44.4-r
Message-ID:  <20011124215825.GA46008@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011124213950.YEZX10558.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8>
References:  <20011124213950.YEZX10558.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8>

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In the last episode (Nov 24), tyler spivey said:
> i was going to send a pr, but decided to ask here first:
> i compiled a custom kernel, uname output below,
> and i wanted to test out kzip, no particular reason, just bored.
> # cd
> # cp /kernel .
> # kzip kernel
> then it said bad magic.
> what's going on?
> FreeBSD h24-76-54-195.vf.shawcable.net 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 24 12:42:04 GMT 2001     root@h24-76-54-195.vf.shawcable.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FAST  i386

kzip only works on a.out kernels and has been obsolate for a long time. 
Just gzip your kernel file; /boot/loader can read gzipped kernels just
fine.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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