kernel.gz.aa & kernel.gz.ab

[John Nielsen]

On Monday 05 September 2005 07:58 pm, John Nielsen wrote:
> 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)?

.. or I could just follow your advice:

> Take a look at src/release/scripts/split-file.sh to see how these files
> are generated.

Sorry for the noise.

(kenel.gz.split is the split index file)

JN