From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 21:15:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3311916A4CF for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0802B43D5C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:15:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (qmail 29361 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2004 21:15:35 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Oct 2004 21:15:35 -0000 Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9QLFWBu009548; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:15:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9QLFW8h015276; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:15:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@zion.baldwin.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by zion.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9QLFVpg015275; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:15:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:06:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <002501c4b7b4$e10a9560$9600000a@Desktop> In-Reply-To: <002501c4b7b4$e10a9560$9600000a@Desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410261406.47683.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Jan Knoppers Subject: Re: Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:15:36 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/