Re: boot floppies [was: an important task]

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org> writes:

> Finally, UCHIYAMA patched GRUB, /boot/serverboot, and /hurd/exec to
> make them understand bzip2 compression.  I'd like to make a similar
> patch to the boot-floppies package, which will benefit all Debian
> users in reducing the number of floppies required to install a base
> system.

It is already the case that the Hurd exec server understands
gzipped executables, if -DGZIP is given at compile time (which is the
default).

What additional work did Uchiyama do that you are referring to?

Thomas