From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 14:25:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12803.mail.yahoo.com (web12803.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECFE637B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:25:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011217222519.52772.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.199.171.75] by web12803.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:25:19 PST Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:25:19 -0800 (PST) From: Rohit Panda Subject: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup To: freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, ia there any way to compress the FreeBSD kernel,so that its size becomes small,and which can be uncompressed before bootup,the way its done in linux.Actually i want a kernel of smaller but its being bigger than what i want,but comparitively the linux kernel is nearly half the size(because its compressed).does anybody have experience in this field.if so the please help me out in this problem. but i was glad to know ,that if i keep the same configuration in linux and freebsd,comparitively the "uncompressed" kernel of FreeBSD is much smaller that the "uncompressed" kernel of Linux. anyway if anybody has any idea please share it with me. any help will be highly appreciated. thanks rohit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message