On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > Ok, > > I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to > mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still > too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! > > What FFFFFF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest > kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I > maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all
make menuconfig; make dep; make clean; make zImage; And if you use modules... make modules; make modules_install Those are the steps you have to take to make a kernel. make zImage will compress the kernel image so that it can fit in memory. -Justin Akehurst
