Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 23:21:21 debian-user-digest-
request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> 12.2 MB vs 12.5 MB? "much much smaller"? Why do you consider 300 KB to be
> "much much smaller"?
>
> My kernel.deb is 1.5 MB and my vmlinuz is 1.2 MB. That is "much much
> smaller". ;) I've only done custom kernels on 32bit x86 headless server
> platforms, so maybe mine would double in size if I were doing X86-84
> kernels due to 8 byte instruction words vs 4 byte words, and triple in
> size if I was doing desktops/laptops. Still, my kernel would only be
> 3-4.5 MB. How is yours in the 13MB range? Kitchen sink in there too? ;)
>
Probably is because I do not know what is safe to set to "no". These are
basically stock kernels with whatever would have been in the initrd compiled
in instead. The debs are full of modules, most of which simply take up space.
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