From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 14:07:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02177 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02172 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:07:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA37581; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:05:54 -0800 (PST) To: Robert Nordier cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), abial@nask.pl, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 1999 23:17:44 +0200." <199901082117.XAA00229@ceia.nordier.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:05:53 -0800 Message-ID: <37577.915833153@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I quite like Jordan's suggestion of kzip'ing the loader. The > compression is not especially efficient: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 122880 Jan 3 23:55 loader > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 70760 Jan 8 23:05 loader.kz > > but boot1/boot2 don't have a problem with loader.kz. Is this an optimization we can use for the short term? Still looks like it will save us at least 50K, and that's not chicken feed on today's boot.flp/kern.flp images. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message