On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Alan Dayley 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. zimage is just gzip compression, and bzimage is bzip2 compression (iirc) -- unless they are talking about cpio-related stuff for the kernel I guess... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss