Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:52:39 +0800 From: TH Goh <thgoh@singaporegateway.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, thgoh <thgoh@singaporegateway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embedded System and Compressed Kernel Message-ID: <v04003a00b3fe145e305a@[137.134.1.102]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909091049230.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <37D748BD.53B5D7BC@singaporegateway.com>
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At 6:50 PM +0800 9/9/99, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >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 Thank you very much for the info. Unfortunately I hv legacy binaries on 2.2.X. :( For 3.X is it possible to have the mfs kernel on a dos filesystem and use dosboot ? Thanks and best regards Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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