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Re: What's the file system of root.bin?



on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Damon Muller (dm-debian-user@empire.net.au) wrote:
> Quoth Karsten M. Self, 
> > For the Potato 2.2 disks, however, root.bin found under /install is a
> > gziped ext2 filesystem image.  This can be determined by running 'type'
> > against the file (it reports gzip), then uncompressing the file (most
> > likely to a location other than the CDROM), and running 'type' against
> > it again.  I've currently got this image mounted on my own system:
> 
> Are you sure you don't mean `file', rather than `type'?

Ahem.

Read what I meant, not what I wrote®.

Wups.  Yes, you're right.  Intuitively enough "file" tells you what type
of file a file is....

Peace.

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