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[jari.aalto AT cante.net (Jari Aalto+mail.linux)]

| ----- Original Message -----
| From: jari.aalto AT cante.net
| =20
| > About the size: bzip2 would compress better so more things could be
| > included in those 2 floppies. eepro100/e100 is quite common.
| >
| > There is also http://rzip.samba.org which compresses even better.
| >=20
| > What would it require to change to different compression method?
| 
| You're unlikely to gain much space by switching compression methods.
| BL3 is already very small, and the typical advantage other methods
| have over gzip is minimal to none. If you really are worried about
| size, it is probably easier with another (GNU/)Linux distribution.

I made some tests with maximum compression. Results sorted by size Based on
these, 1.44 could contain more few essential modules like e100 / eepro100
and other things.

    -rw-r--r--  1 root None 1533993 Mar  2 13:38 disk2.tzo
    -rw-r--r--  1 root None 1423809 Mar  2 12:22 disk2.tgz
    -rw-r--r--  1 root None 1421942 Mar  2 13:32 disk2.tar.bz2
    -rw-r--r--  1 root None 1399700 Mar  2 13:37 disk2.tar.rz

    http://www.lzop.org/
    http://rzip.samba.org/
    http://rzip.samba.org/

That *.lzop was included because I wanted to see how an algorithm 
optimized for speed would do.

So, How would I make BL3 use rzip during unpacking the disk2?

Jari