Re: kernel build (compression) problem

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:52:30 -0400

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@varesearch.com> said:

[...]

> bzImage is stronger compression. make bzImage rather than make zImage should
> suffice.

It is not. The bzImage is another format that handles bigger images (big z
Image). It still uses gzip, not bzip2 (as many surmise by the name).

bzip2 is not feasible, as it uses _lots_ of memory (something like 1Mb
minimum) to uncompress, and when uncompressing the kernel you are working
within the fabled 640Kb of the PC.

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