zImage compressed with what?

Sir Light sirlight at cox.net
Fri Feb 15 16:45:02 MST 2008


Alan,

It's either bzip or gzip. 

Jon
---- Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote: 
> The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file.  What is
> the compression format of that file.
> 
> I've never had to look into it before but I am now.  I figure one of you
> may already know.
> 
> Alan
> 



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