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From: Craig Sharpe
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 00:00

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Hi

I'm in the process of configuring my own kernel. I'm using RedHat 6 and
need to reconfigure the kernel to suport scsi, parallel ports, and zip
drivers so that I can install my zip 250 parallel drive.

I've selected the options I want in xconfig .. and have typed "make
dep", then "make clean" and then "make zImage" but then after it has
looked at the sectors of my HD it comes up with two error messages
saying " Use bzImage or modules". I took the advice and ran "make
xconfigure" with very few y options and after the rest of the procedure
the error message came up again. It takes about a whole morning to do
the process and so I was wondering if it was possible to see the amount
of bytes used in the kernel by the different drivers..  and hence know
how much I can add without going over the kernel size limit??

Or does anyone know were to find xconfig lists that display the drivers
installed and produce a working kernel?

thanks for your time.

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From: Craig Sharpe <craig7s@hotmail.com>
Subject: "Kernel size too large"
Date: 1999/06/03
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