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Tony Crawford wrote:
>
> Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 17:59):
>
> > You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This
> > makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things
>
> I have most everything in modules that goes in modules ...
>
> > floppy
> > disk, tape, cd-rom drivers, network drivers, etc.
>
> Tape not applicable, but the rest is all mod.
>
> > You later load these
> > modules after the kernel has mounted the root filesystem (this can even
> > be done automagically by use of the kernel daemon or the respective
> > kernel thread.)
>
> Right. This was a running system until this morning, remember.
>
> > > tried make bzImage,
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > And why didn't it work? This *is* the solution to your problem...
>
> It did work, in the sense that a kernel was compiled ... but it
> wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making
> that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper
> first!)
The kernel stays the same size, it can just run the bigger size,
hence no problem.
Peter Allen
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