Re: kernel Image Size.

[Justin Akehurst <akehurst@wcug.wwu.edu>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:

> Ok,
> 
> I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to
> mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still
> too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!!
> 
> What FFFFFF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest
> kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I
> maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all

make menuconfig; 
make dep; 
make clean; 
make zImage; 

And if you use modules...

make modules; 
make modules_install

Those are the steps you have to take to make a kernel.  make zImage will
compress the kernel image so that it can fit in memory.

-Justin Akehurst