Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:31:21 +0100
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:

>   # upx tmp/vmlinuz
>                        Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
>            Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
>   UPX 1.24         Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar         Nov
>   7th 2002
> 
>           File size         Ratio      Format      Name
>      --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>   upx: tmp/vmlinuz: UnknownExecutableFormatException
> 
>   Packed 0 files.
>   #
> 
> I tried packing the programs in bin/ and usr/bin/, but this only made
> the initrd.gz files larger.
> 
> Have anyone used upx successfully with d-i?
> 

I had a go at it the other day.

I think vmlinuz is the compressed kernel, you should run it on an
uncompressed kernel, i.e. vmlinux

It didnt compress very well at all, maybe i was doing something wrong.


Glenn