I decided to check out Upx after finding the folling in debian-isntaller/doc/README:
Upx can compress bzimages. They're still bootable, and up to 100k might be saved this way. http://upx.sourceforge.net/ I checked, and the version in Sid (1.24) is only able to compress ELF binaries. When I tried it on the kernel, it printed this: # upx tmp/vmlinuz Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 UPX 1.24 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar Nov 7th 2002 File size Ratio Format Name -------------------- ------ ----------- ----------- upx: tmp/vmlinuz: UnknownExecutableFormatException Packed 0 files. # I tried packing the programs in bin/ and usr/bin/, but this only made the initrd.gz files larger. Have anyone used upx successfully with d-i? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
