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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:06:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot floppy banner
Message-ID:  <199802100806.BAA20965@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 9, 98 05:48:36 pm

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> > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well.
> 
> How much smaller is the ELF loader?

Not that much smaller.  But it's having both that's the problem.

> > Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot
> > blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels.
> 
> Please do.  8)

I'll think about it; it's pretty trivial, I'm betting, except where
the "extras" are concerned (they made some things vastly more complex,
unfortunately).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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