From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 17 8:55:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from balzac.cybercable.fr (balzac.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F25137B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19543036 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2001 16:55:07 -0000 Received: from d165.dhcp212-231.cybercable.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.165]) (envelope-sender ) by balzac.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Feb 2001 16:55:07 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1HGt5s41892; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:55:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Frederic Nguyen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compress bootdisk References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010217052059.024b2d00@step.polymtl.ca> <20010216211231.C6524@mollari.cthul.hu> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:12:31 -0800" From: Cyrille Lefevre Reply-To: clefevre@poboxes.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 17 Feb 2001 17:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway 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