Re: RH6.2 fails to install on Alpha 200/4

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From: anthony
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 00:00

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In aus.computers.linux Tim Tuck <Tim.Tuck@penrith.net> wrote:

> OH and there seems to be some serious documentation errors such as the
> the boot linux gets call linuz instead of linux.gz - or is this
> symptomatic of other problems ?

Im not sure about the alpha issue, but on ix86 systems, in the /boot
directory.. the vmlinuz file is the Compressed BOOT Image.
Whereas the vmlinux file is the uncompressed image, which is used for putting out the internal tables and sybols for things like kernel debugging, and klogd, and auto-oops resolving stuff.

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