On 19 Sep 2025 at 17:27, Go Canes wrote: From: Go Canes <letsgonhlcan...@gmail.com> Date sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:27:54 -0400 Subject: Re: "bare metal" installation To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > What is the (range of) sizes (in megabytes) of the current Fedora-42 > > workstation kernel? > > How much of a difference does it make whether it's Gnome or KDE? > > These are all Fedora 41 with KDE > - laptop 1 - 146M > - laptop 2 - 44M > - laptop 3 - 139M > - laptop 4 - 43M > - home theater - 65M Generally, I've found with my machines, ones with NVIDIA hardware will ad and about 100M to the size of the regulare kernel and rescue kernels. Confirmed by removing nvidia-gpu-firmware and then rebuilding kernels. 173241122 Sep 16 10:43 initramfs-0-rescue-5454d68084c145e496d5ce383b5147de.img 75323320 Sep 16 12:06 initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img 75318466 Sep 16 12:11 initramfs-6.16.4-200.fc42.x86_64.img 75325678 Sep 16 12:30 initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img reinstall it, rebuild kernels > > The size is very much dependent on the hardware and software in question. > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
