kernel.gz.aa & kernel.gz.ab

[John Nielsen]

On Monday 05 September 2005 04:56 am, Matthew West wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:47:30AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> > On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote:
> > > wonder how could I decompress $subj files....they doesn't seems to be
> > > in tar or gzip formats.
> > >
> > > files are taken from kern1.flp nad kern2.flp on 5.4-RELEASE/floppies
> >
> > cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab > kernel.gz
> > gunzip kernel.gz
>
> You're still missing the first part of the file.
>
> You also need to grab kernel.gz.boot from the boot.flp image.
>
> Then you can do a:
>
>   cat kernel.gz.boot kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab > kernel.gz

That makes sense.  Do you know offhand what the other file on the boot 
floppy is for (kernel.gz.split, I believe)?

JN