From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 14:38:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BA637B41C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:38:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14785; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:38:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA23169; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:38:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23165; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:38:36 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:38:36 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Rohit Panda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup In-Reply-To: <20011217222519.52772.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: 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 The FreeBSD kernel loader is capable of loading a gzipped kernel, although I'm not sure how to do it... However, this gains no advantages over the uncompressed kernel aside from being able to fit that kernel on a small disk Ken On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Rohit Panda wrote: > 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