Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:19:14 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: catch22? Message-ID: <14555.52502.104954.845351@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000324124617.A4533@vt.edu> References: <20000324124617.A4533@vt.edu>
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Nick writes: > 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? Have you tried pointing the sysctl kern.bootfile at the unstripped version of the kernel? You might also look at the kvm_mkdb man page. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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