From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 14:37:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEBE37B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBHMb9R17420; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:37:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <003c01c1874b$5e3e9060$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Rohit Panda" , References: <20011217222519.52772.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:37:10 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Why do you want the kernel to be compressed? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rohit Panda" To: Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 23:25 Subject: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message