Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 04:22:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199510021122.EAA04359@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510021109.VAA23721@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 2, 95 09:09:12 pm
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> > > Surely there is more of a problem fitting everything at runtime than just > loading it? The limiting factor is either fitting the compressed file between 3MB and the end of RAM, or fitting the output of the decompression between 1MB and 3MB.. I've seen both fail at various times.. one answer might be to put the decompression routines and entrypoints at the END of the file :) that way you could over-write the beginning as you decompressed (yukko) You could relocate the decomp routines to < 640K and run them down there and let the decompressed output overwrite the start of the compressed version (and hope it never catches up with the read pointer..) I think the problem at the moment is htat the compressed binary runs past 4MB. > > Bruce >
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