Re: Kernel question: From bootdisk to hard drive
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
> I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my
> home directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also
> used cat /dev/fd0 > /home/david/vmlinuz and it did the same thing.)
>
> Everything is OK, except the file size of this new kernel looks like
> its the size of an unformatted disk, i.e. 1.47 Mb. The past kernel was
> about 350Kb, but had extraneous stuff.
Probably it is exactly the size of an unformatted disk, since it's
basically an exact copy of the floppy.
Likely only a part of that file is the actual kernel, while the rest is
boot information or empty space.
> I reran lilo and booted off the hard drive, and the new kernel works
> fine. Should the fact that this custom/slimmer kernel is larger in
> size than the stock Debian kernel (by about 4X) worry me?
Just out of curiousity, why can't you install the kernel normally, using
make-kpkg (from the kernel-package package) or the directions in the
kernel docs?
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