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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
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Subject: Re: Status of kzip 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 16:49:31 EST."
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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.

Thanks,
Sheldon.


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