Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:28:36 GMT From: pc@shaw.wave.ca (C. Peter Constantinidis) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Release with KERNFORMAT=elf Message-ID: <363942ad.8393637@mail.mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <1882.909615895@time.cdrom.com> References: <1882.909615895@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:04:55 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: >> I'm not following you here. You can't use kzip on an ELF kernel, so if >> we cut over to an ELF kernel for the install, you have to gzip it and >> use the new loader. This will probably push us to the two-disk install. >I'm suggesting that we eventually go to gzip for all kernels and use >the new loader with a loader script, yes. As far as it all fitting on >one floppy, I wouldn't write that off just yet. The gzip'd kernel is >about the same size and the loader is 80K, something which could >possibly also be built in a "stripped down" configuration. It's >nothing I'd want to do immediately, but I think it might be possible >with a little sweat. I'm a bit of a newbie, so umm.. I hope I'm not saying something here that isn't possible, or what.. but.. Why not have all the files on the boot floppy compressed, and have the kernel or whatever is on the floppy extract the files into a temporary ramdisk on the PC? Also, what about 1.7 meg formatting tricks? Both tricks seem to work fine under DOS. Best, P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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