Subject: Re: A boot disk
To: dkwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2001 14:26:31
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:18:59PM +1000, dkwok wrote:
...
> I still wish NetBSD kernel can be as small as Linux at 500K though.
This is with all unnecessary options removed, and
makeoptions COPTS="-Os" # Optimise for space. Implies -O2
?
Oh yes - just checked - one of mine is 378k, but compressed.. 750k uncompressed,
then again, fits nicely on a floppy with all the other guff necessary for
a firewall, without using mdsetimage..
Cheers,
Patrick