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boot32 can boot gzipped kernels (when it works at all), so there's no need

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to require a standalone gunzip.
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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.5 2006/07/13 13:15:04 bjh21 Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.6 2006/07/13 13:25:17 bjh21 Exp $
.
First and foremost, before beginning the installation process,
.Em make sure you have a reliable backup
@ -15,25 +15,6 @@ A self-extracting version of this
can be found at David Pilling's W3 site
.Pq Lk http://pilling.users.netlink.co.uk/free.html .
.It
A program that can uncompress gzip files, because the current bootloader
can't read gzip'ed kernels (yet!).
.Bl -bullet
.It
The included command line gzip program
.Pa installation/misc/gzip_ff8
(!) which is a mirror a version
that Laurent Domisse has patched to work on SA.
This is also available from:
.Lk http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~arcangel/files/index.html .
Just set the type of the file to
.Ql ff8 .
.It
SparkFS from David Pilling (commercial) (v1.28 for SA-110).
.It
!Gzip from HENSA (micros.hensa.ac.uk); is it still alive
though?
.El
.It
A program to report your disk's geometry:
.Bl -bullet
.It