On 9/20/2025 12:18 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 9/19/25 3:25 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
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>
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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
Just to be clear, the kernel is always the same size. It's the
initramfs that can be different sizes depending on what hardware you
have as shown at the end.
Uh-oh.
Here we go again.
another "overloaded" term in the IT profession?
I've been using the term "kernel" loosely and in a general way. I'm
using it incorrectly?
What is the correct understanding of "kernel" in the context of this
part of this thread (trying to estimate how much space to allocate for
the "kernel"...
current "kernel" + "rescue" + 5 old "kernels" + space for future
"kernel" growth...
when doing installation)?
... or maybe I should ask what term I should use?
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