From owner-freebsd-small Wed Dec 15 9: 5:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E534C15238 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA04201; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:06:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199912151806.TAA04201@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: some picobsd things To: small@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:06:29 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, while trying to revise picobsd configuration etc, i notice a fair amount of space on the boot floppy is eaten by: 1) the loader configuration files in /boot 2) the files in /etc For #1, it appears that we can save gzipped versions of these files on the floppy, and the loader is happy to read them without any problem so i would suggest for post-3.4R the above change to the "stage1" script. This saves some 15-20KB i think For #2, i was just made aware of the existence of "minigzip" which can be probably used when extracting most things from the /etc/ directory on the floppy, and then used back during the "update" phase ? cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message