Re: Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb
Bob Hilliard saw fit to inform me that:
>"Nick" <daye149@pacbell.net> writes:
>
>> What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a kernel-image.deb of the same version.
>
> A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options
>compiled into it than any one person would ever need, therefore it is
>larger and slower than one compiled with just the options that fit
>your preferences and your hardware.
>
Say it is like this. The default kernel is :
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1042807 Feb 6 20:57 vmlinuz-2.2.17
My compiled kernel is :
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689499 Feb 11 23:57 vmlinuz-2.4.0
See the difference in size :-)
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