Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced

[John Baldwin]

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.

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