Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 1998 17:04:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: bzip2 compression of kernel or initial ramdisk? |
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote: > In an effort to cram more bits into a boot floppy, I am > contemplating bzip2 compression for the initial ramdisk or > kernel. If either of these changes are already available > somewhere, I would appreciate a pointer, so that I can avoid > reinventing the wheel.
I seem to recall a discussion on this previously and figguring out that: 1) bzip is too slow 2) the decoder is to big (space saved approxamates space used) 3) the decoder requires to much RAM (the major concern -- 640k limit, remember <G>) (even on the "small" setting, 2.5 mb is required)
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