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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Martin Renters <martin@victor.innovus.com>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, julian@ref.tfs.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <199510021635.MAA18912@victor.innovus.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510021502.AAA11626@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 3, 95 00:32:17 am

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> > >Surely there is more of a problem fitting everything at runtime than just
> > >loading it?
> > 
> >    Nope, as far as I know the only problem is sufficient space to decompress
> > the kernel binary and MFS filesystem. After this has occurred, there is
> > "plenty" of room.

How about uncompressing backwards and overwriting the compressed image during
the uncompression?  (ie: rather than starting at 1Mb and working up,
start at 1M+kernel size and work down)

Martin



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