From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 18:56:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leonis.nus.edu.sg (leonis.nus.edu.sg [137.132.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E7815D16 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thgoh@singaporegateway.com) Received: from [137.134.1.102] (dial208-34.dialup.nus.edu.sg [137.132.208.34]) by leonis.nus.edu.sg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23344; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:55:26 +0800 (SST) X-Sender: thgoh@smtp.krdl.org.sg (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <37D748BD.53B5D7BC@singaporegateway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:52:39 +0800 To: Alfred Perlstein , thgoh From: TH Goh Subject: Re: Embedded System and Compressed Kernel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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