From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 29 02:28:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04494 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:28:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dewdrop2.mindspring.com (dewdrop2.mindspring.com [207.69.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04478 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pc@shaw.wave.ca) Received: from pool-207-205-237-248.dlls.grid.net (pool-207-205-237-248.dlls.grid.net [207.205.237.248]) by dewdrop2.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA02209 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 05:28:36 -0500 (EST) From: pc@shaw.wave.ca (C. Peter Constantinidis) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Release with KERNFORMAT=elf Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:28:36 GMT Reply-To: pc@shaw.wave.ca Message-ID: <363942ad.8393637@mail.mindspring.com> References: <1882.909615895@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <1882.909615895@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA04483 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:04:55 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >> I'm not following you here. You can't use kzip on an ELF kernel, so if >> we cut over to an ELF kernel for the install, you have to gzip it and >> use the new loader. This will probably push us to the two-disk install. >I'm suggesting that we eventually go to gzip for all kernels and use >the new loader with a loader script, yes. As far as it all fitting on >one floppy, I wouldn't write that off just yet. The gzip'd kernel is >about the same size and the loader is 80K, something which could >possibly also be built in a "stripped down" configuration. It's >nothing I'd want to do immediately, but I think it might be possible >with a little sweat. I'm a bit of a newbie, so umm.. I hope I'm not saying something here that isn't possible, or what.. but.. Why not have all the files on the boot floppy compressed, and have the kernel or whatever is on the floppy extract the files into a temporary ramdisk on the PC? Also, what about 1.7 meg formatting tricks? Both tricks seem to work fine under DOS. Best, P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message