well it was surely trasnferred in binary monde, also because extracting it
using the installer yields a working kernel!!

i will investigate howewer, it is probably my fault and the thing I suspect
most is some "resource fork" or such added by the mac. But i had no time
today for playing around, I will avait the weekend ?

cheers

ric

on 2/26/02 8:09 PM, Frederick Bruckman at fredb@immanent.net wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 
>> another question is... why does the booter not recognize the Kernel under
>> mac partition? i tried it as tgz, as tar and as totally uncompressed.
>> naught. WHile installing it woks... mysteries!
> 
> The Booter works with gzipped kernels, but not tarred. In any case, if
> you're ftp'ing, be sure to use image mode.
> 
> Frederick
>