Subject: Re: .gz and .tgz kernels (was: Re: SMP - newbie question?)
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/01/2005 16:19:05
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Richard Rauch wrote:

> I thought that the .tgz kernels were for sysinst, which assumed gzipped
> tarballs, and the .gz were directly loadable (the bootloader can load
> gzipped kernels).

It seems like a waste of space for the many kernels. sysinst could be
trained to use the non-tarred version.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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