Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:30AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > 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.

The kernel compresses itself using gzip, so upx isn't likely to
be useful there.  It would be much more useful when used on the
rest of userspace.  Though I suspect you would get better results
by simply switching the initrd filesystem from ext2 to cramfs.

 -Erik

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