Test Rat <ttse...@gmail.com> writes: > Eduardo Morras <nec...@retena.com> writes: > >> At 22:06 13/08/2011, Steven Hartland wrote: >>>> i just had the following idea: how about instead of copying the >>>> current kernel >>>>to /boot/kernel.old and then installing the new one under /boot/kernel as >>>>the >>>> results of target installkernel, we create a unique directory name >>>> for the old >>>>kernel? >>> >>>The default size of / is likely your biggest problem. >> >> Don't know how much compresable is /boot/kernel.old but tar with -z >> or -j may be a workaround. We can extract on demand and swap current >> /boot/kernel with new /boot/kernel. Other way of do it is link >> /boot/kernel to current kernel and update it, but i don't know >> (again) if it would work in single user mode. > > There is kgzldr that lets you boot compressed kernels. Try > > $ gzip /boot/kernel/* > $ reboot
Nevermind, I've confused it with gzip support in loader, it also has bzip2 support which for some reason doesn't work for me bzf_read: BZ2_bzDecompress returned -3 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
