On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:17:58AM +0000, Kenneth MacDonald wrote: > Glenn> The reason gzip compression is used on intrd's is becasue > Glenn> the kernel and some bootloaders (grub at least) support it. > > Glenn> It would be great is we could use better compression on the > Glenn> initrd. > > Take a look at http://www.websamba.com/chrissicool where there are kernel patches to >enable bzip2 compression of initrd.
It doesn't work with with 2.4.20, the initrd part rejects, there are a lot of changes. I applied (was version 1.4, i was not able to find the newer version) only the part to compress the kernel with bzip2, but it crashs after decompressing. damn, the savings are nice Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
