Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:06:47 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Jan Knoppers <knoppers@astent.nl> Subject: Re: Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced Message-ID: <200410261406.47683.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c4b7b4$e10a9560$9600000a@Desktop> References: <002501c4b7b4$e10a9560$9600000a@Desktop>
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On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:28 pm, Jan Knoppers wrote: > >> You have to cat them all together and then gunzip: > >> > >> cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab ... | gunzip > kernel > > That didn't work. You have to start with the file kernel.gz.boot I found in > the mean time. I.e.: > > # cat kernel.gz.boot kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab ... | gunzip > kernel Ah, yes, I forgot about the .boot file. :-P That hack is needed due to the way the gzip pseudo-filesystem works in the loader because it wants to read the header when it opens the file rather than waiting for the first read. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/help
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