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From: Martin Renters <martin@victor.innovus.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
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> > >Surely there is more of a problem fitting everything at runtime than just
> > >loading it?
> > 
> >    Nope, as far as I know the only problem is sufficient space to decompress
> > the kernel binary and MFS filesystem. After this has occurred, there is
> > "plenty" of room.

How about uncompressing backwards and overwriting the compressed image during
the uncompression?  (ie: rather than starting at 1Mb and working up,
start at 1M+kernel size and work down)

Martin