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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




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