Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:17:03 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compressed bootloader ? Message-ID: <199801270047.LAA00745@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:50:14 BST." <199801262050.VAA00805@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> image. Thinking about the size problem of the secondary boot loader > (7KB or so). gzipping the boot loader brings the size down from 7120 to > 4496, so I believe that even adding some 5-700 bytes for the > uncompression code would give us some additional space (assuming there > is any use for it). Any taker ? If you have a compact self-extractor for boot images, go for it. Put it in boot1 and have it extract boot2, if that's at all possible. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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