Boot floppy

[Tim Wright]

In <1991May18.010422.15059 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>pjh at mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:

>>Jon Ben Urban got me started, but now I need to find out what files on
>>the boot floppy I made by copying disk #1 of the installation set can be
>>rm'd -- my kernel is 900K!

>You dont specify which version of unix you are talking about, so it 
>will be hard for someone to help.  However, the first thing I would
>do for the boot floppy kernel is strip it and remove the #ident 
>strings so that it is much smaller.

Oh, and I suppose another thing that could be done is to remove unnecessary
drivers e.g. serial and parallel port drivers assuming you haven't already
done this.

Tim
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