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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

After you have booted Bl3 you can add these other modules from another 
floppy disk.  If BL3 included more of them on the original floppy disks, 
it would then occupy more RAM and not be usable on systems with very 
little RAM unless the user, after booting, deleted unused things.  I have 
been able to run it (slowly, loop version) in 3MB RAM.

Have you tried BL2?  It includes more modules but not X.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:

> | ----- 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
>
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