The most you can cram on a DD floppy

[Brian]

Hmm... how about powerpacking everything, executables, datafiles the lot and then have powerpacker.library and powerpackerpatcher take care of all the hazzle?

PPP unpack PP files on the fly in the background when a tool access suck a file so the tool itself doesn't have to be PP friendly.

Dunno if it's practical but you might squeze out some more from a dd disk that way compared to using lzx and you don't have to unpack it all from the start? Dunno if there's not some XPK compressions that's better than lzx?

[mr_a500]

Hmm... how about powerpacking everything, executables, datafiles the lot and then have powerpacker.library and powerpackerpatcher take care of all the hazzle?

No, I already tried powerpacking and it is way bigger than a lzx archive. With all files powerpacked, it's still over 1Mb and wouldn't even fit on the disk.

Lzx makes the smallest archives, but I'd love it if somebody could prove me wrong. (with unarchiver <=21K)

I just realized I can include loadmodule and scsi.device 43 (optional startup - pressing F1 at boot) and use my bootdisk to access partitions beyond 4Gb if the boot partion is screwed up. (recover using multiple backups stored beyond 4Gb)

I'm off to create the best single Amiga bootdisk ever seen by human eyes... (only aliens will have seen better :-D)

[PG]

Cool project.. ;-)

[Trooper]

Not sure how much i crammed on a single bootable floppy, But i used stonecracker to compress all the executables and called it ultrabench. I may have a look and see, As i still have the disk somewhere.

Trooper

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question: is LHA and LHX / LHZ all filetypes which AMIGAs (non of this EMULATION) understand?

[Tomas]

It depends on how efficient the orginal data is packed. You can probably get like 10megs onto a single floppy if you compress a non compact txt file. If you compress a file that is already using a compressed format like a mpeg, divx, mp3 and so on, then you will most likely not be able to gain more at all by compressing it into zip, lha or so on..

[Tomas]

I already tried powerpacking all the large executables before adding them to the lzx archive, but surprisingly it made the lzx archive BIGGER. I guess the lzx compression works better on non-powerpacked files. I wouldn't even attempt to use a newer compressor like "RAR" because the unrar executable is a whopping 180K and uses huge stack and RAM to extract.

There is pretty much nothing to gain on compressing something that has already been compressed with something else.