Re: 1.2.13 kernel Compiling

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From: Michael McNeil
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 00:00

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Charles Meredith (chazz@cais.com) wrote:
: 	I've acquired and installed Slackware 2.3 which had Linux 1.2.8 and
: gcc 2.6.3.  Then I downloaded linux-1.2.13.tar.gz from the archive and
: loaded it in /usr/src/linux-1.2.13 with the symbolic link
: /usr/src/linux pointing to it.  My problem is that it creates images
: that are too big!
: 	In the config, I only loaded normal floppy, normal HD, sys V IPC, 486
: option, subnets are local, Net devices dummy, ppp, and ne2000, and
: char device for QIC-117 with 3 buffers.  After 'make clean;make
: dep;make zImage' it produces a kernel that just shy of 700k.  What is
: up?

	I've noticed this too. However, when I ran 'make install' it
compressed it for me before moving zImage to root and rerunning LILO.
Maybe they should label it 'Image' instead of 'zImage' until after
it gets installed. Have you had any problems booting the kernel image
after running 'make install'?

	Michael McNeil

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Date: 1995/10/23
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