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 <danceswithcrows@usa.net> 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
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