Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:59:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release Message-ID: <68151.915753541@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:10:58 PST." <199901072310.PAA35393@apollo.backplane.com>
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> I've got 3 months worth of VM work that needs to be done. I am *not* > going to spend a month learning how ELF works just to port kzip. It's unlikely that anyone else will either, just FYI. There's just not much point in general griping about it since that rarely gets things accomplished around here, so as abrupt as my response might have been, it was also the only correct one. Wishing for a working kzip won't make it so. > I can barely fit a minimal uncompressed kernel on a floppy now, and then > only if I use every last block on the floppy. Add in a minimal number gzip it then? That's an entirely effective option with the new boot blocks. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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