Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 04 Oct 2001 07:11:58 -0600 |
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CaT <cat@zip.com.au> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I have days when I'm frustrated by the size of both glibc and the > > linux kernel. stripped both the linux kernel and glibc are comparable > > in size. Though I think the 400KB of compressed glibc-2.1.2 is > > actually smaller than the kernel for the most part. I have to strip > > off practically everthing to get a useable bzImage under 400KB. > > > > So any good ideas on how to get the size of linux down? > > Mind if I ask why you need a bzimage under 400kb? Just curious as I've > never had the need. (And I can see needing it less then 1.4meg - are you > trying to get a kernel AND a ramdisk on the one floppy?)
floppies have lots of room.
I'd like to get a kernel, ramdisk, and some hw initialization code all on a 256KB ROM. I have my ramdisk down to about 14KB compressed. I have my hw initialization code down to 32KB uncompressed (and I might be able to reduce that further). So I want something like a 192KB (compressed) linux kernel.
If I had that some of the hard problems of with linuxBIOS would just drop away.
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