> Well, I've hit the first major issue with making a floppy boot disk.
Take
> color.gz and make the exact same thing on the Alpha and it's too big to
> fit on a single floppy. The uncompressed size is over 5 megs, and the
> gzip -9'ed image is 2 megs.
How about using bzip2 instead of gzip?
> And I'm not sure what I can take out. Everything's been stripped as much
> as it can be. I haven't added any additional stuff. It's just that all
the
> binaries and libraries are really really big. I'm not sure what to do.
> Of course, for booting from cd, this is not a problem.
Well, color.gz for intel has both fdisk and cfdisk. How about dumping the
largest one...
--- Jesper Juhl
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Fri May 09 2003 - 10:00:01 PDT