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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel size
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:25:09 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199508312007.NAA00476@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Aug 31, 95 01:07:47 pm
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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

Okay, that should have solved 1/2 your problem for you, you can now
use upto 1.2MB for the kernel, and you have 1.2MB to stuff binaries
in.  That is quite a lot of space given that your kernel can have
gzip execution support in it.  Though the distribution of gzip executing
kernels in binary form is not a safe thing to do by the FreeBSD project
do to copyright/GPL concerns of tainting the kernel I have.


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