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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 1995 16:44:32 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <199510021544.QAA23794@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199510021449.KAA14101@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Oct 2, 95 10:49:11 am

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> I have a suggestion that you (i.e. hackers) probably won't like,
> but why not uncompress the kernel *from* the boot media.  The
> way this would work would be kinda like how VMS boots.  There
> would be a tertiary bootstrap whose job it would be to read
> and uncompress the kernel into the proper place in memory and
> start it running.
> 
Nice idea. The only objection, the savings are a fraction of the
size of a compressed kernel (you need room for the decompression
code, plus a buffer for data being decompressed).

If you kernel is in the 4..8MB range then it really makes sense... :)

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
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