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Re: Reality check!



On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes
> > lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at
> > once at the beginning, and then gets on with it.
> 
> Excuse me, but RedHat actually boots on my laptop because the kernel
> is _less_ bloated than Debian's kernel. Debian's install disk doesn't
> boot.  Red Hat uses a zImage kernel, Debian uses bzImage because it's
> too big for zImage.

IIRC, for slink, the default kernel is a zImage.


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