From: Eric <eric@cisu.net>
To: Eng Se-Hsieng <g0202512@nus.edu.sg>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oversized kernel
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:35:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303121835.21843.eric@cisu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E6F144D.3090501@ameritech.net>
Go through it item by item and remove any drivers you dont need. Old ide
drivers, networking, scsi, sound, bluetooth. Find out what hardware your
machine has and recompile it with only those options. Play around and read
the help thats available when compiling the kernel. Worst case scenario,
simply compile a BARE kernel and recomple everything else you need as a
module and put them on a seperate disk so you can load them if/when you need
them. Compiling a kernel can be a very machine personal thing. Without
knowing the exact hardware its very hard to say exactly what options to use.
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 05:04 am, 1stFlight wrote:
> Are you using "make bzImage:" when you compile? It makes for a smaller
> kernel
>
> Eng Se-Hsieng wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I've just compiled a new kernel and the vmlinuz is over 2Mb in size.
> >Since mkbootdisk returns : Not enough space and I don't have a CD writer
> >on my system, I'm unable to create a boot disk and am a little wary
> >about not having one.
> >
> >How does one know what are the minimum options to choose in order to
> >reduce the size of the vmlinuz? My system is a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT
> >(Celeron 266 Mhz)
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Se-Hsieng
> >-
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-13 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 9:59 Oversized kernel Eng Se-Hsieng
2003-03-12 10:02 ` Eckhardt, Rodolpho H. O.
2003-03-12 11:04 ` 1stFlight
2003-03-13 0:35 ` Eric [this message]
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2003-03-12 16:19 ` Ray Olszewski
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