From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 10:32:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E40152BD for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17676; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:50:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:50:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: thgoh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embedded System and Compressed Kernel In-Reply-To: <37D748BD.53B5D7BC@singaporegateway.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, thgoh wrote: > hi gurus, > I am trying to configure an embedded system with 8m solid state disk and > 64Meg RAM. > > Hence it would be necessary to compress the kernel. > Unfortunately, kzip only works up to 4Megs. > Is there any way to compress beyond 4 Megs? > perhaps by tweaking kzipboot? Take a look at the current boot floppies, they are just UFS on a disk with a compressed kernel on one, and a compressed mfsroot on the other. The loader takes care of the compression, just name the file with a .gz and it should load it. good luck, -Alfred > > TIA > > Richard > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message