Subject: Re: New install floppies: No gzip
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-install
Date: 02/02/2001 01:27:04
The floppies use crunchgen to generate 1 large binary which does different
actions based on what name it's invoked as.

gzip/gunzip are on the floppy images.

James

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>On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, buzz wrote:
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>> I built new install floppies (make from the
>> /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies directory).. however
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>Which ones?
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>> when I get through sysinst, after patitioning, etc, it
>> can't find gzip/gunzip anywhere... is there something
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>What is "it"? What can't find gzip/gunzip? When does this happen?
>Is there a specific error message?
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>> special I need to do here? I looked through the
>> various list files, and they show both gzip and
>> gunzip.. Hrm... 
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>gzip and gunzip aren't really there.
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>The list files for ramdisk-small, ramdisk-tiny and ramdisk-big
>(1.5.1_ALPHA under i386) all seem to indicate that gzip and gunzip are
>really "cat".
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>There is a x_gzip -- but I have never used it and it is not included with
>these disks. Look under /usr/src/distrib/utils/x_gzip. I am not sure --
>but to use it, you'd need to uncomment the appropriate line in the
>(desired) ramdiskbin.conf file and then change the "list" to not link
>gzip/gunzip to cat and to link them to ramdiskbin instead.
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>Good luck,
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>   Jeremy C. Reed
>   http://www.reedmedia.net/
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