From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 12 11:06:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA22982 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:06:12 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA22971 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:06:08 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06676; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:08:08 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:08:08 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199509121808.MAA06676@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: steve@news.netdtw.com (Steve Corso), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel & fixit diskette (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199509121744.KAA21937@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199509121744.KAA21937@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > I am trying to make a fixit diskette that contains inetd along with the > > other normal stuff. > > > > I have been pretty much done it except I cannot figure out two items: > > > > 1. How do you crunch the actual kernel itself? The Makefile I have does > > not do this. > > It is gzip'pped; the loader understands this. Almost. It's 'kzipped', which is gzip + a header to unzip it into memory. Nate