Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:49:29 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can i have a compressed kernel kernel which uncompresses during bootup Message-ID: <20011217174213.O26838-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112171737550.12582-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > The FreeBSD kernel loader is capable of loading a gzipped kernel, although > I'm not sure how to do it... However, this gains no advantages over the > uncompressed kernel aside from being able to fit that kernel on a small > disk I believe you just gzip it with the new ELF kernels. I also think the loader can do bzip2 as well. For old a.out kernels, you needed to use the command boot_crunch for compressing the kernel. Joe > > Ken > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Rohit Panda wrote: > > > hi, > > ia there any way to compress the FreeBSD kernel,so > > that its size becomes small,and which can be > > uncompressed before bootup,the way its done in > > linux.Actually i want a kernel of smaller but its > > being bigger than what i want,but comparitively the > > linux kernel is nearly half the size(because its > > compressed).does anybody have experience in this > > field.if so the please help me out in this problem. > > > > but i was glad to know ,that if i keep the same > > configuration in linux and freebsd,comparitively the > > "uncompressed" kernel of FreeBSD is much smaller that > > the "uncompressed" kernel of Linux. > > > > anyway if anybody has any idea please share it with > > me. > > > > any help will be highly appreciated. > > > > thanks > > > > rohit > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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