>   |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.

(1) no one should ever be running a kernel that large "in real life."
(2) compressing your kernel makes a lot of other things harder.


getting a machine installed is a very special case, and should be
handled accordingly.


cgd