From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 15 0:28: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from web115.yahoomail.com (web115.mail.yahoo.com [205.180.60.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC6937B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dyeske@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 21921 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Mar 2001 08:27:58 -0000 Message-ID: <20010315082758.21920.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Received: from [64.81.49.127] by web115.yahoomail.com; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:27:58 PST Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:27:58 -0800 (PST) From: David Yeske Subject: Re: functional differences between variants To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3AB07A5F.B6A19F76@cubical.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that would be really cool, being able to bzip an mfsroot would also be really useful so you could do the mfsroot load method from /boot/loader, or bzip the kernel after you write_mfs_in_kernel... David --- Juha-Matti Liukkonen wrote: > Hi, > > talking of squeezing bits, bzip2 can stuff the kernel and filesystem > images into quite a bit smaller space than gzip, giving maybe an extra > 200 KB on the floppy. I don't think it would be too difficult to make > /boot/loader to support kernel.bz2 as well; libbz2.a comes with the > bzip2 port and is quite simple to use. > > - Juha > > "Chad R. Larson" wrote: > > > > As I recall, Doug Young wrote: > > > Also, is there a reason why picoBSD development still appears to be > > > concentrated on older versions of FreeBSD instead of something in the > > > 4.x line ?? > > > > The kernel in the 4.x line is considerably larger than 2.2.x or > > 3.5.x, and has some features (like improved SMP support) that is of > > little use for Pico systems. When you're trying to smoosh stuff > > down to fit on a floppy, every little bit (byte?) counts. > > > > -crl > > -- > > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com > > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > -- > Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Cubical Solutions Ltd > Phone: +358(0)405280142 > Email: jml@cubical.fi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message