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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > initrd=initfs.gz
> 
> initrd means to use a ramdisk?

initrd=initfs.gz means:
(1) unzip initfs.gz into a ramdisk
(2) use that ramdisk as the initial root filesystem
(3) execute /linuxrc (if it exists in the init fs)
(4) use real root filesystem (shown by root=)

> I may try deleting all but DOS some day
> But 600 bytes is not likely to make a really large 
> difference.  

It's more like 90,000 bytes.  You're not counting
the binaries in /initrd/bin

> you get to teh point where every byte counts (as on 
> my 3MB RAM 386) 

Such a computer will work better after an HD install.
That will eliminate all the loop overhead.

Cheers,
Steven





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