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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:42:06 -0300
From:      "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>,  "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz>,  "Kostik Belousov" <kostikbel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic on boot
Message-ID:  <8e10486b0710100642qe4991a8w4dd1d06dd4bbb45@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071010112505.GA28273@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <031f01c809ef$c829de80$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK> <86641fgrs6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20071010112505.GA28273@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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On 10/10/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> writes:
> > > Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now.
> > > I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replace=
d
> > > it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount ->
> > > tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkiso=
mages.sh
> >
> > You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of
> > jumping through hoops with mdconfig?
>
> Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about
> libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar).  Heck, even *I* didn't
> know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought
> it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives.

One more... I doesn't know too !!

Question:

 If "our" tar can handle .zip file why unzip is installed via ports to
decompress some .zip files ???



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