John F. Woods said something not totally unlike...
  |
  |> % ls -la netbsd
  |> -rwxr-xr-x  1 cgd  cgd  1221364 Apr 17 07:31 netbsd
  |> % size netbsd
  |> text    data    bss     dec     hex
  |> 1048576 57344   93624   1199544 124db8
  |
  |Wow.  And I thought the 820K kernel I run with was porky.  :-)

Has anyone put any thought into a compressed kernel similiar to what
linux does?  It's not a bad setup especially if you like to boot your
test kernels from floppy.

I just wish Linus would add an initial boot routine similiar to NetBSD
where you can specify which kernel to use.

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Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg                I'm not mental... 
SAIC UNIX/Netware Computer Type Guy       I'm just on higher philosophical 
gspiegel@ridgecrest.ca.us                 plane, so GET OFF MY BACK! 
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