Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:38:36 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112171737550.12582-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011217222519.52772.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>
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The FreeBSD kernel loader is capable of loading a gzipped kernel, although I'm not sure how to do it... However, this gains no advantages over the uncompressed kernel aside from being able to fit that kernel on a small disk Ken On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Rohit Panda wrote: > hi, > ia there any way to compress the FreeBSD kernel,so > that its size becomes small,and which can be > uncompressed before bootup,the way its done in > linux.Actually i want a kernel of smaller but its > being bigger than what i want,but comparitively the > linux kernel is nearly half the size(because its > compressed).does anybody have experience in this > field.if so the please help me out in this problem. > > but i was glad to know ,that if i keep the same > configuration in linux and freebsd,comparitively the > "uncompressed" kernel of FreeBSD is much smaller that > the "uncompressed" kernel of Linux. > > anyway if anybody has any idea please share it with > me. > > any help will be highly appreciated. > > thanks > > rohit > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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