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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



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