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compiling the kernel



A newbie question:
1) What's System map file, and where is it created
relative to the kernel source directory during
kernel compilation?

2) (perhaps related to (1) above)
Wheneve I try creating a boot floppy,
using 'installkernel ', I get a problem
as follows:

Creating a lilo bootdisk...
mkdir /tmp/boot7403mke2fs -q /dev/fd0mke2fs
1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot7403cd 
/tmp/boot7403cp 
/boot/vmlinuz
/boot/boot.b 
.lilo -C - <<-EOF2Fatal: geo_comp_addr: 
Cylinder number is too big (1053 > 1023)
set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot7403
There was a problem creating the boot diskette.  
Please make sure that you inserted the diskette into the
correct drive and that the disketteis not write-protected.

[End of printout]
(I opened the file in win98 notepad, which does not read \n correctly.
Had to add newlines myself)

What's the deal???


3) In windows there is the idea of formating a partition
or a floppy.  Debian installation seem to do something similar.
How does it work in Linux, and what is the utility that does it?


4) When compiling the kernel, does moving functionality into
modules reduces performance, and if so, is it worth cutting
the size of the kernel image?

Thanks a lot!

_______________________________________________________________________
Alexander Gutfraind (sasha) 	agutfrai@student.math.uwaterloo.ca 






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