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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:05:53 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), abial@nask.pl, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release 
Message-ID:  <37577.915833153@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 1999 23:17:44 %2B0200." <199901082117.XAA00229@ceia.nordier.com> 

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> I quite like Jordan's suggestion of kzip'ing the loader.  The
> compression is not especially efficient:
> 
>     -r-xr-xr-x  1 rnordier  wheel  122880 Jan  3 23:55 loader
>     -rwxr-xr-x  1 rnordier  wheel   70760 Jan  8 23:05 loader.kz
> 
> but boot1/boot2 don't have a problem with loader.kz.

Is this an optimization we can use for the short term?  Still
looks like it will save us at least 50K, and that's not chicken
feed on today's boot.flp/kern.flp images.

- Jordan

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