On Jan 30, 2008 11:49 AM, Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com> wrote: > > MHR wrote: > > > > # file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD > > x86-64, version 1, stripped > > > > Doesn't look that way - BUT, it is a self-extracting archive. AFAIK > > it is gzipped, and it is not tarred (why would it be - it's one > > file?). > > > > Not that file... I meant linux-major.minor.blah.blah.tar.gz say from > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 > And, my mistake... it's gzip'd. My mistake - I misread that (it's too late for me to claim still sleepy, so oops!). And, well, yeah! (Kidding - ;^) mhr