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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:28:02 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        rnordier@nordier.com, mike@smith.net.au, 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:  <199901082228.AAA00959@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <37577.915833153@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 8, 99 02:05:53 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 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.

Seems OK to me.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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