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Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB



Hi.

On Mar 20 2013, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> File sizes are:
> 
> Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607

Just curious: Can you install the package advancecomp and run on that
ramdisk the command:

    advdef -z -4 ramdisk.gz

and report back the results? Just to be extra safe, you may want to test the
recompressed image with:

    gzip -t ramdisk.gz

If the image gets smaller, then you probably will have some space to put one
binary or another in it, so that said image will be more useful.

> Vmlinuz/zImage – 1524976

I don't know how, but it would be nice to see how much improvement one would
get from doing the same trick as above.


Regards,

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