Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > I already considered all this and am now at 848 K. How much space exactly
> > > do we have?
> >
> > IIRC you have 837 kB free on an OFS-formatted floppy. Since we all use FFS
> > these days it (at least the kernel) should fit. And don't use DC-FFS since
> > it will waste^H^H^H^H^Hconsume even more diskspace.
>
> :) AFAIR FFS gives the full 880K minus a few?
>
> BTW if we could use bzip2, we'd be all set already:
>
> michdaen@pismo> du -sk vmapus.bz2 ~/src/apus-cvs/2.4
> 776 vmapus.bz2
Has no one added bzip2 support to zlib yet?
However, the increased size of zlib may offset the decreased size of the
kernel.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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