I was sitting down this holiday cleaning out my email (a revolting task thanks to spam) when I came across some emails in the LRP-dev mailing list dated 12/20/00 that delt with a compression program (upx) that could compress the kernel... So i experimented..with VERY intresting results.....and only found ONE drawback 454,035 2.2.16-1-LRP-FloppyImage-zImage 500,142 2.2.16-1-LRP-zImage 478,151 2.2.16-1-LRP-IDE-zImage which are various kernels available from Charles Steinkuehler's Web Site now after running them through upx 1.11 393,906 2.2.16-1-LRP-FloppyImage-zImage-UPX 434,680 2.2.16-1-LRP-zImage-UPX 415,648 2.2.16-1-LRP-IDE-zImage-UPX 60,129 saved on 2.2.16-1-LRP-FloppyImage-zImage 65,462 saved on 2.2.16-1-LRP-zImage 62,503 saved on 2.2.16-1-LRP-IDE-zImage or enough space to add at least a lrp package or two to a already tight 1.68mb image (or possiably change a 1.68mb image to 1.44mb) with this knowledge I was already working on creating a lrp package for NIC diag programs available at http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html the diag programs totaled up to 566kb uncompressed and 225kb as a lrp package (big I know...but its one of those packages you might make a dedicated LRP diskette for) after running the diag programs through upx the total size dropped to 375kb (good!) but the lrp package GREW 259kb (ACK...very bad!) also...ive not had a SINGLE problem with the upx compressed NIC diag programs and kernels its my opinion that upx would be very usefull on LRP kernels but a hit and miss afair on LRP packages (it may help in certain cases but its up to the packager of the program) anyone have any thoughts? -Kenneth Hadley _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/leaf-devel
