Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of kzip Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990521185039.9491E-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <38077.927275339@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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
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