Re: rh6.0 -- anyone downloaded a new kernel

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Ok, now I feel dumb.  I thought it was bzip2...I knew it held more/had more
capacity, so I assumed that it was bzip2 (better compression)...

I'll take one more family size helping from the big bucket o' dumbness...


k

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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Barry Spindler wrote:

> 
> From linux/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt:
> 
> Note: the difference between 'zImage' files and 'bzImage' files is that
> 'bzImage' uses a different layout and a different loading algorithm,
> and thus has a larger capacity.  Both files use gzip compression.
> The 'bz' in 'bzImage' stands for 'big zImage', not for 'bzip'!
> 
> 	
> "World domination. Fast."
> (By Linus Torvalds)
> 
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, Roger C. Scudder Jr. wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 24 May 1999, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
> > 
> > > 	make bzImage
> > 
> > Ok, so make will use bzip2?  Any particular advantages
> > other than a smaller image, or is it mainly a matter of 
> > preference?
> > 
> > Roger
> > 
> > 
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