Re: panic on boot

From: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:42:06 -0300
On 10/10/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > "Petr Holub" <hopet_at_ics.muni.cz> writes:
> > > Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now.
> > > I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replaced
> > > it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount ->
> > > tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkisomages.sh
> >
> > You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of
> > jumping through hoops with mdconfig?
>
> Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about
> libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar).  Heck, even *I* didn't
> know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought
> it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives.

One more... I doesn't know too !!

Question:

 If "our" tar can handle .zip file why unzip is installed via ports to
decompress some .zip files ???
Received on Wed Oct 10 2007 - 11:42:16 UTC

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