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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:46:17 -0500
From: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu>
To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: catch22?
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I boot my kernel from a floppy disk.  To make it small enough to fit on the
disk, I strip it and gzip it.  By stripping I lose the ability to gather
system stats via top, or vmstat.

Is there a way to restore the information lost due to stripping to the already
running kernel?

Is there a way to create a boot disk with less overhead than the one used
for kern.flp?

Thanks as always,
Nick Maniscalco


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