Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:50:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: thgoh <thgoh@singaporegateway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embedded System and Compressed Kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909091049230.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <37D748BD.53B5D7BC@singaporegateway.com>
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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, thgoh wrote: > hi gurus, > I am trying to configure an embedded system with 8m solid state disk and > 64Meg RAM. > > Hence it would be necessary to compress the kernel. > Unfortunately, kzip only works up to 4Megs. > Is there any way to compress beyond 4 Megs? > perhaps by tweaking kzipboot? Take a look at the current boot floppies, they are just UFS on a disk with a compressed kernel on one, and a compressed mfsroot on the other. The loader takes care of the compression, just name the file with a .gz and it should load it. good luck, -Alfred > > TIA > > Richard > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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