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

| 
| Sorry, I did not understand.
| I wonder if zimage is gzipped and could be bzipped instead.
| When I 'make zImage' during kernel compilation I could instead make 
| bzImage - would this be smaller?

I didn't test on zImage, but yes, in general bzImage for kernel would also
be smaller. I believe latest kernels already use that or offer the choice.
Not sure about 2.x.

The interesting thing is could rzip be used there as well to squeeze even
more room. I'm not familiar with kernel enough to understand how the
uncompression is done.

| On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jari Aalto wrote:
| 
| > | BL3 is designed to be used by beginners who are using DOS or Windows and
| > | have pkunzip or a Windows zip program but no way to unzip .bz files.
| >
| > I was referring to the 2-floppy install choice, which uses .gz that
| > DOS users would fins uncommon too.