Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:37:10 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Rohit Panda" <prohit99@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup Message-ID: <003c01c1874b$5e3e9060$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011217222519.52772.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>
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Why do you want the kernel to be compressed? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rohit Panda" <prohit99@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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