From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 1stFlight <1stflight@ameritech.net> Subject: Re: Oversized kernel Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:04:45 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E6F144D.3090501@ameritech.net> References: <720FB032F37C0D45A11085D881B03368A2B496@MBXSRV24.stu.nus.edu.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <720FB032F37C0D45A11085D881B03368A2B496@MBXSRV24.stu.nus.edu.sg> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Eng Se-Hsieng Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > -- It's not that life is so short, it's that death is so long... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs