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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:17:35 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup
Message-ID:  <20011219221735.P724@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011219110219.67200.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>; from prohit99@yahoo.com on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:02:19AM -0800
References:  <20011217174213.O26838-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20011219110219.67200.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:02:19AM -0800, Rohit Panda wrote:
> iam using FreeBSD 4.4.so what do i need to do for
> making a compressed and how do i tell the loader to
> uncompress it.will it do it automatically.
> 
> please give a detailed help.

cd /
chflags nouchg kernel
chflags noschg kernel
gzip kernel
reboot now

Nothing I couldn't not find by googling for "freebsd kernel gzip".

Edwin

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