Subject: Re: Varying Kernels
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/07/1998 18:50:42
Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> Why is the kernels/netbsd-GENERIC.gz file different from the sets/kern.tgz
> file?
>
> Oh, one's a gzipped file and the other is a gzipped tar of the same file, I
> guess. Yes, they have the same checksum.
>
> OK, next question: Why do we have both of them?
Because that's the format mandated by release(7).
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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