diff --git a/release/picobsd/build/build b/release/picobsd/build/build
index 786ee283f35d..e87cc7aee927 100755
--- a/release/picobsd/build/build
+++ b/release/picobsd/build/build
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh -
 
 #
-#	$Id: build,v 1.9 1998/09/22 15:40:00 abial Exp $
+#	$Id: build,v 1.10 1998/09/23 14:54:46 abial Exp $
 #
 
 # You can set the SRC variable which points to your source tree. It's
 # /usr/src by default (most people shouldn't change it).
 SRC=/usr/src
 
-
-# Set this if your crunchgen and kzip don't support ELF.
-#OBJFORMAT=aout; export OBJFORMAT
-
 # Default MFS sizes for different types of the floppy. Again, most people
 # shouldn't change them unless they know what they are doing.
 
diff --git a/release/picobsd/build/populate b/release/picobsd/build/populate
index 82f3646c1722..eef47554cbcd 100755
--- a/release/picobsd/build/populate
+++ b/release/picobsd/build/populate
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
-#	$Id: populate,v 1.5 1998/09/19 21:44:42 abial Exp $
+#	$Id: populate,v 1.6 1998/09/26 17:27:18 abial Exp $
 #
 
 . ../Version
@@ -74,12 +74,4 @@ if [ ! -f ../tools/dumpnlist/dumpnlist ]
 then
 	(cd ../tools/dumpnlist; make)
 fi
-../tools/dumpnlist/dumpnlist ./kernel >/mnt/stand/symbols
-
-echo "-> Preparing kernel config list..."
-if [ ! -f ../tinyware/kget/kget ]
-then
-	(cd ../tinyware/kget; make)
-fi
-../tinyware/kget/kget ./kernel /mnt/stand/vanilla
 (echo "-> Fixing permissions"; cd /mnt; chown -R root *)
diff --git a/release/picobsd/build/stage1 b/release/picobsd/build/stage1
index 0651cf8f51d9..c6f3677cc660 100755
--- a/release/picobsd/build/stage1
+++ b/release/picobsd/build/stage1
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh -
 
 #
-#	$Id: stage1,v 1.4 1998/09/20 00:46:07 abial Exp $
+#	$Id: stage1,v 1.5 1998/10/25 15:15:55 abial Exp $
 #
 
 set -e
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Default setting for other (custom) setups.
-INODES=16000
+INODES=4096
 # You can save some space on MFS if you don't want so many inodes...
 if [ "${TYPE}" = "dial" ]
 then
diff --git a/release/picobsd/build/stage2 b/release/picobsd/build/stage2
index d5f70a7aa33f..9354aadb1e83 100755
--- a/release/picobsd/build/stage2
+++ b/release/picobsd/build/stage2
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh -
 
 #
-#	$Id: stage2,v 1.1.1.1 1998/08/27 17:38:42 abial Exp $
+#	$Id: stage2,v 1.2 1998/09/07 06:46:25 abial Exp $
 #
 set -e
 
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ if [ ! -f ../tools/write_mfs_in_kernel/wmik ]; then
 fi
 
 ../tools/write_mfs_in_kernel/wmik kernel fs.PICOBSD
-kzip -v kernel
+strip kernel
+strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment kernel
+gzip -9 -n kernel
 rm fs.PICOBSD
-rm kernel
diff --git a/release/picobsd/build/stage3 b/release/picobsd/build/stage3
index 04b1db384f31..34b729dc95fd 100755
--- a/release/picobsd/build/stage3
+++ b/release/picobsd/build/stage3
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 #! /bin/sh -
 
 #
-#	$Id: stage3,v 1.2 1998/08/31 13:35:06 abial Exp $
+#	$Id: stage3,v 1.3 1998/09/26 17:27:18 abial Exp $
 #
 set -e
 
 . ../Version
 
-if [ ! -f kernel.kz ]; then
-	echo "-> ERROR: you must build kernel.kz first"
+if [ ! -f kernel.gz ]; then
+	echo "-> ERROR: you must build kernel.gz first"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -86,15 +86,23 @@ then
 fi
 
 cd ${pwd}
-cp kernel.kz /mnt/kernel
+cp kernel.gz /mnt/kernel.gz
 if [ "X$?" != "X0" ]
 then
-	echo "-> ERROR while transferring kernel.kz to /mnt..."
+	echo "-> ERROR while transferring kernel.gz to /mnt..."
 	echo "-> Aborting $0"
 	exit 10
 fi
+mkdir /mnt/boot
+cp /boot/loader .
+kzip -v loader
+mv loader.kz /mnt/boot/loader
+rm -f loader loader.o
+echo "/boot/loader" >/mnt/boot.config
+echo "load /kernel">/mnt/boot/loader.rc
+echo "load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config">>/mnt/boot/loader.rc
 (echo "-> Fixing permissions"; cd /mnt; chown -R root *)
-rm kernel.kz
+rm kernel.gz
 
 df -ik /mnt