From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 3 7: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574D237B404 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 07:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g43E4hf64256; Fri, 3 May 2002 23:04:43 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: References: X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 21 From: Makoto Matsushita To: Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: 4.5-release, kern.flp, kernel.gz, loader issue? Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 23:04:42 +0900 Message-Id: <20020503230442O.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan.Grant> Quick question: can someone confirm that the loader on the Jan.Grant> kern.flp image that comes with 4.5-release can handle a Jan.Grant> compressed kernel image? Yes. Mount kern.flp (it's a simple UFS filesystem) and see what's in it. Jan.Grant> I suspect this is my fault (I've already worked around it) - Jan.Grant> but just checking. How do you gzip your kernel? You can use gzip(1) to gzip kernel, and you can't use kgzip(8) for that. Jan.Grant> I suspect most people are using bootable ISO images these Jan.Grant> days. I think so too, I know that many users fetch ISO image instead of the distribution itself, from snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message