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From: M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: Just installed RedHat 9
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:23:50 +0100
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To: John Montanez <jemontanez@knology.net>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:58:47PM -0500, John Montanez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed RedHat 9, and am trying to recompile the kernel to include
> support for amateur radio.  I get a message telling me that the kernel is to
> big to be able to make a boot disk.  Can anyone tell me what sort of things
> I can safely leave out when I configure the kernel to make it smaller.  It's

Anything you don't need. :-) Don't include drivers for hardware you don't
have. But I suspect it may be hard to fit on a floppy.

I suspect that you need to do 'make bzdisk', in case you are trying to
use 'make zdisk'.