On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > > >> zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, > > >> which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not totally on crack, the > > > > > > Ah yes, thanks for the clarification... > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux#bzImage > > > > > >> compression used is gzip. There's an x86 boot sector and some setup > > >> data before the gzipped kernel image. HTH, > > > > > > I would guess that this is not true for PPC systems :-) > > > > Thank you all. I should have thought of wikipedia! > ---- > Just wondering...I occasionally run into people that dismiss wikipedia > out of hand citing a lack of accuracy. Needless to say, I get a little > excited because even when I suggest that they are capable of fixing > inaccuracies or adding missing information, they are defeatists who > simply don't get it. > > I would bet others run into this kind of person...who doesn't believe > that it's accurate unless it's printed in Groliers or Britannica or some > pay service. How do you deal with people like this? > > Craig Ignore them as idiots and let them go buy Britannica which is no more accurate, probably less accurate and certainly not as up to date. Harold > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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