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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
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From: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2000 21:28:44 -0800
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

> > On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting.  Though I thought
> > it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.
> No, there isn't.  There used to be, but it has been fixed.

the main problem is for us distribution if we want to fit this on a
disk with a couple of modules for our installation process.

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