From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 19 02:27:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16617 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:27:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16609 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA19115; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:30:59 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:30:59 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Peter Wemm , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know how to put a gzip'd kernel on the floppy? In-Reply-To: <199901190858.AAA02702@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > The key is that the file is called kernel.gz on the floppy, and you ask it > > > to load "kernel" and not "kernel.gz". > > > > If you're really tight on space, you may also consider using kzip on > > /boot/loader - you get ca. 50kB more then. > > I had enabled this, but it breaks the aout-elf upgrade because the > bootblocks are built before the new kzip is, and the old one calls > 'ld' incorrectly. I don't know that it should qualify as a build-tool? Well, IMHO for future releases probably yes - it's good to save space where you can, especially on the boot floppies. If Jordan can still fit the contents of the floppies for 3.1-R without it, then let's wait with this for the 4.0 - there are plans to merge floppy building code with picobsd anyway. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message