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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel size
Message-ID:  <199508312007.NAA00476@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508311349.GAA11381@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 31, 95 06:49:24 am

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> 
> > > I guess we can still compress the binaries in the mfs filesystem
> > > which would leave them still compressed when the kernel is decompressed,
> > 
> > Already done!  The crunched binary is, in turn, compressed.
not in -current it isn't.....

> Can some one go try a ``boot -a'' with a 2.1-stable (last snap) floppy
> and see if you can change from the kernel floppy to the root floppy
> using this?  I don't have one handy just now :-(.  All my boot code
> on floppies is still 2.0R :-( :-(.
yes you can

> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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