From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 29 02:31:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05099 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:31:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05092 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:31:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04146; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: pc@shaw.wave.ca cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Release with KERNFORMAT=elf In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:28:36 GMT." <363942ad.8393637@mail.mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:30:20 -0800 Message-ID: <4142.909657020@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? That's exactly what it does already. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message