Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

From: Max Inux (maxinux@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 06:27:36 EST


>gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing
>and it looks normal-sized to me.

I believe there is zImage (gzip) and bzImage (bzip2). (Or is it compress
vs gzip, but then why bzImage vs gzImage?)

>> On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought
>> it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.
>>
>
>No, there isn't. There used to be, but it has been fixed.

Ok then, I was on crank, and apparently so is he =)

William Tiemann
<wtiemann@openpgp.net>
http://www.OpenPGP.Net

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