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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