Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:55 am, Jan Knoppers wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2004 02:54 am, spam maps wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some more differences between for 4.X and from
> > 5.3, needs to be clarified in the handbook.
> > Below are two such cases. The "-" lines need to
> > be removed, the "+" newly added instead.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 2.2.7 Prepare the Boot Media
> >
> > -In most cases you will just need two files,
> > -kern.flp and mfsroot.flp.
> >
> > +In case of 4.X, you will just need two files,
> > +kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; since 5.3, you will
> > +need three files, boot.flp, kern1.flp and
> > +kern2.flp.
>
> Would it be possible you also describe how to restore the kernX.flp files?
> Apparently they produce a couple of kernel.gz.XX files (kernel.gz.aa,
> kernel.gz.ab, etc.) Somehow I can't get these restored to a normal kernel.
> Gunzip does not recognize them as valid files.

You have to cat them all together and then gunzip:

cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab ... | gunzip > kernel

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