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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:39:39 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what do i have to do to boot a compressed kernel
Message-ID:  <20020720203939.GC40625@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 20), Rohit Panda said:
> i want to boot from a compressed freebsd kernel.iam having freebsd
> 4.4.heard that it supports booting from a gzip compressed kernel.how
> do we do it.

I believe all you have to do is gzip (or bzip2) /kernel .  When the
loader looks for "/kernel" and doesn't find it, it will look for
/kernel.gz and /kernel.bz2 and use it instead.
 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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