From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 16:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF5C15024 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA01520; Fri, 21 May 1999 18:54:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of kzip In-Reply-To: <38077.927275339@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 May 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 May 1999 16:49:31 EST, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > just gzip the kernel and name it "kernel.gz" i'm pretty sure > > the loader is smart enough that when asked for "kernel" and > > "kernel" doesn't exist it will try for kernel.gz and uncompress > > it. > > > > of course, not actually trying this, i can't say. :) > > I tried this recently myself, although I didn't try very hard. It didn't > work for me, which is why I asked about kzip. I'll assume that kzip > still needs to be taught about ELF kernels. put in a recent kern.flp.... / # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt .(20:31:41)(root@thumper.reserved) / # ls mnt/ boot kernel.config kernel.gz .(20:31:53)(root@thumper.reserved) / # file /mnt/kernel.gz /mnt/kernel.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, last modified: Mon Feb 15 18:34:30 1999, max compression, os: Unix ??? looks compressed to me... cat /mnt/boot/loader.rc : load /kernel echo Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: read load -t mfs_root /mfsroot boot -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message