[syslinux] reduce boot image size

[CHEN Xu]

Great, thanks!

-Simon

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Andrew <andrew at shopcusa.com> wrote:
> CHEN Xu wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have got a boot image working, thanks to this mailing list. Now, my
>> question is, how can I reduce the size of the boot image?
>>
>> Basically, I created the boot image by copying files from an iso
>> image, which must contains lots of files that I don't need. Is there a
>> neat way so that I can only copy the files that are needed?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch!
>>
>> -Simon
>
> Still talking about BSD? Check out mfsbsd, it's a stripped down image
> that weighs in around 30mb IIRC. It has a simple build system so you can
> modify it for your purposes. It makes a great recovery tool, and I
> believe it is capable of doing ftp/net installs.
>
> you can gzip your image to help with the transfer speed. memdisk
> supports gzip natively, just pass it a .gz file and it knows what to do.
>
> Anything else, and I am guessing you would be better served by looking
> to the relevant OS support, as it will be specific to each.
>
> HTH
>
> -Andrew
>
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