kernel too big for floppy....help

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firebird79

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• Sep 28, 2002

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how can we reduce the size of the kernel that will fit into the floppy? i just finish recompile the new kernel and want to make a boot disk. when i do the mkbootdisk, it stop half way and said run out of disk space. any idea how to solve this problem??

 

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• Sep 28, 2002

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Just recompile everything you don't need to boot as a module.

 

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• Sep 28, 2002

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Are you making a bzImage? It's compressed and takes up less space. You should also try to compile some drivers as modules instead.

 

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Be very specific about what you compile, ie, only the IDE chipset driver that you need, leave out SCSI if you dont have SCSI drives etc.

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well....i used the same configuration are the previous kernel setup(2.4.18-3). the previous kernel still can fit into a floppy disk. i try to recompile and dump some junk stuff.....

 

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• Sep 29, 2002

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Which kernel version is the new one?

 

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i thinks that is RH 2.4.18-10. but now i change to linux-2.4.19, and everything done.....even my acpi problem also solved there(still has some minor problem, but okey for that). thanks for help!!!