[ale] Compiling Kernel (It's to d*mn big)

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, charlie wrote:

> hello,
> 
>   I'm still having problems with my net card, but I think I might have a 
> solution.  However, I need to recompile the kernel and insert the appropiate
> module(s)!  The only problem is that recently if I recompile my kernel its
> total is 900,000 bytes.  Much to large.  I first had this problem with
> the 1.2.13 kernel.  The 1.2.11 kernel I compiled had no problem, but
> since I've tried to compile 1.2.13 now compiling the 1.2.11 kernel is
> just as large.  I'm mostly accepting a lot of the defaults.  There
> are not much changes invovled.  Has anyone had this problem??  Hell
> when I compiled the 1.2.11 successfully I had more options enabled than
> the kernel I'm building now, but the recent kernels are twice as large
> as the successful 1.2.11.

You're looking at the wrong kernel.  The one you want is in 
linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, not linux/vmlinuz.  zImage is compressed 
(and therefore smaller ;-) and vmlinuz is uncompressed.

have fun,
chris


Chris Ricker : gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu : The Georgia Institute o' Technology