[syslinux] Memdisk: compressed floppy images

jmblack jmblack at hansonsystems.com
Sun Nov 10 18:28:01 PST 2002


Are their any plans to allow compressed floppy images in later versions
of memdisk? Right now Im using isolinux/memdisk on a cd with quite a few
floppy images, each image has a different purpose as you can imagine.
Many of the floppy imaages are not 'full' and would benifit greatly from
compression. Is their a standard(ish) way to compress a floppy image,
maybe compress is misleading, Id be happy with no compression of the
data, but somehow only writing the blocks which are used. Ive yet to
compare the compressed floppy images produced by winimage
(www.winimage.com) to the compressed images created by other tools, but
one would hope that their was a standard they were following ;)

-jmblack




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