Steph - yes, I am making a bzImage. I guess this may account for the
reduced file size if the original kernel wasn't compressed ?
David
Steph said -
Stupid question but ... are you doing a make bzImage ?
Steph
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 10:13, David Ryan wrote:
> Hi there,
>> I have been off the list for a while, so sorry if this has been covered
> recently.
>> Here's the background - I have installed SUSE 7.0 and now want to set up
> BRU to do some tape backups. When I run install.sh I am told that I
> need SCSI tape support in the kernel - fair enough. However, when I add
> it and compile the new kernel the size is something like 500k instead of
> the 800k of the existing kernel.
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