Re: 'System is too big' is becoming a problem

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
17 May 1997 19:13:28 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970517091719.926A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> zImage will fit on a floppy so you can boot your system even if the
> boot-sectors of you HD are corrupt. This allows you to fix things.
>

So will a bzImage -- the difference in size between a zImage and a
bzImage with the same configuration is maybe 512 bytes.

A zImage will, however, boot on machines with less RAM than the
corresponding bzImage.

-hpa

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