Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18

From: Mike Touloumtzis (miket@bluemug.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 00:16:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:22:29PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:21, Christian Ludwig wrote:
> > Putting in another 4MB into that machine (thus it has 8MB now), made the
> > kernel boot, but ramdisk decompression failed. All in all you will need at
> > least 12MB to boot correctly, if you are using a bz2bzImage of about 700kB
> > and a 2MB compressed ramdisk image.
>
> Good stuff, but why take this opportunity to make an ugly name even uglier?
> How about bz2Image, or, more natural in my mind, bz2linux.

Dare I say it... "linux.bz2"? Why are Linux images so special?
After all, the first Unix kernel images were just called "unix".

cheerfully,
miket
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