Date: 17 Feb 2001 17:55:01 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Frederic Nguyen <chainess@worldnet.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compress bootdisk Message-ID: <zofluu56.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:12:31 -0800" References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010217052059.024b2d00@step.polymtl.ca> <20010216211231.C6524@mollari.cthul.hu>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:23:30AM +0100, Frederic Nguyen wrote: > > Does anybody know if there is any possibility to create a bootdisk with a > > compress kernel image? (just like Linux with bzlmage) > > I need asr raid drivers and kernel size gets huge because of it! > > Yes; this is what's done with the install floppies. Just gzip the > kernel and it should work. kgzip is more efficient that gzip : # l kernel* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2316502 Jan 23 07:34 kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1031486 Feb 17 17:50 kernel.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 919906 Feb 17 17:51 kernel.kgz and this may count on a floppy :) Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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