Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > PS: If anyone knows a better stripping method that would still leave the
> > required symbols ... i've seen a objcopy script that does that :
> > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-03/1198.html But it saves
> > only 2% more, not really worth the trouble.
>
> I did an experiment to see if bzip2 would get a better compression ratio, and
> it turns out that for my kernel modules (2.4.7), gzip -9 did better than bzip2
> (2.09:1 vs. 2.05:1).
>
try bzip2 --best
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