Hi Joep, > perhaps be better to use bzip2 which is very efficient but a little > trial turned out that gzip -9 gives a better compression than bzip2 -9. The results of bzip compression depend highly on the input - sometimes it's a lot better than gzip, sometimes it fails big time. There's no general rule other than trying it under the specific curcumstances you use it in, and finding out what's best.
> I need the highest compression as the leafbox is a very old winchip (90 > MHz) system with an MB that was made before USB was available so I have > to use floppies. Well, bzip generally tends to use tons of cpu power, so it may not be the obvious choice for low power boards. > Well I think I have somewhere a somewhat more modern MB > (K6 500MB!) with USB to load a small system with USB support with a > floppy and get the packages from an USB stick.That's more than fast enough. Well, other than switching cpus, you could look at switching boot media - wether it may be two flopppies (one tends to get a lot on 2x1.6MB) or switching to CF, CDROM or DOM, or something like that. Just because your platform won't boot off USB, doesn't mean it's useless (none of the boxes I use LEAF on can boot from USB, and they all use more than just a single 1.44 floppy - Soekris, WRAP or Nexcom boxes are what I use, and they work just fine). Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
