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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2405 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:57:44 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:68 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:62 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!serval!hlu From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Is fixing /bin/sh worthwhile? Message-ID: <1993Feb28.195339.25446@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University References: <CONKLIN.93Feb23174603@talisman.kaleida.com> <1993Feb24.175756.7398@coe.montana.edu> <1993Feb26.035505.13816@unet.net.com> <1993Feb26.171630.28424@coe.montana.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 19:53:39 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1993Feb26.171630.28424@coe.montana.edu>, osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: |> |> What about gzipping alot of the executables on the |> floppy (gzexe), and squish 'em down. Would slow |> down installation... Might let you get more |> on one floppy though. |> -- |> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 |> 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science |> Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu Linux can load gzipped kernel. It can reduce the kernel size by about 50%. I love it on my bootable rootdisk. I beleive it can be ported to 386bsd without much difficulty. H.J.