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Re: miboot floppies



On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:39:01AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Hans.
> 
> On Sep 14 2005, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:58:58 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote:
> > >     gzip -9 vmlinux
> > >     hmount /dev/fd0
> > >     hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage
> > >     humount /dev/fd0
> > 
> > I tried to repeat what Rogério Brito did (using the same kernel-source
> > (version 2.6.13-rc6-mm1), and the .config posted by Brito to the
> > lkml).
> > 
> > But when doing the hcopy command mentioned above I get the following:
> > 
> > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage
> > hcopy: "vmlinux.gz": volume full (No space left on device)
> > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# 
> 
> Now, that is really strange. Did you keep the "optimize for size"?

Yes, I didn't change your .config at all.

> And I was actually using gcc-3.4 when I posted that, since it can
> optimize better than gcc-3.3 (which doesn't have -funit-at-time or
> whatever the option is called).

That must be it, then. However, as Sven Luther has succeeded in
creating miboot floppies again from 2.6 sources, this is not relevant
anymore.

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