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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:44:29 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mike@smith.net.au, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release 
Message-ID:  <73768.915817469@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 1999 15:44:51 %2B0200." <199901081344.PAA01890@ceia.nordier.com> 

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How about trying to kzip the loader? :)

> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > >  Jordan, if gzip works you could have just said so in the first place!
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I thought that characteristic of the new boot blocks was already
> > > common knowledge.
> > 
> > Bear in mind, though, that you'll need additional 100kB of place on the
> > floppy (that's approx. the difference between kzip stubs and the
> > /boot/loader).
> > 
> > In this light it makes sense to do what rnordier suggested - namely, to
> > write a small BTX application which would only be able to load kernel.gz.
> > I _may_ embark on such a project if I have some docs about how to use BTX.
> 
> If it's likely to be used, I don't mind writing this.  It might make a
> good example application for the BTX docs I'm trying to write.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Nordier


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