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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Boot floppy
Message-ID: <1991May18.010422.15059@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 May 91 01:04:22 GMT
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pjh@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.

The pieces of the OS on a boot floppy are usually the minimal set
necessary to build the system, so you may not have much room to 
play with.

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