Justin Akehurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | 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.
Or, you can bypass all this crud with the make-kpkg Debian utility. It does all these steps for you, and it puts together a nice kernel-image*.deb file which you can install manually with "dpkg -i". Not only is it just nicer to use, it's also the way it's supposed to be done under Debian, i.e., it's the Debian Way (TM). Gary
