Re: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE)

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw (jbglaw@lug-owl.de)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 15:51:48 EST

On Sat, 2003-04-26 21:42:15 +0200, Oliver Pitzeier <o.pitzeier@uptime.at>
wrote in message <002201c30c2b$f5300d80$1011a8c0@roadrunner>:
> Alan Bort wrote:
> > > > > > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little
> > > > > > less)... is that the FULL kernel???
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that already compiled? My kernels usually end up
> > > > > around 1.5 MB
> > > > > in size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed.
> > > > well: 4,0M patch-2.4.20.bz2
> > > >
> > > > that's what du patch-2.4.20.bz2 returns....
> > >
> > > That's the patch (i.e. difference) from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20. The full
> > > source is called linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2, but remember that 2.4.20 is
> > > broken.
> >
> > Well. On kernel.org, in the main page there is a link to THAT
> > kernel... I could searcho for the full ~.19 version... but...
> > how big is it??? cause my /boot partition is about 12 MB..
> > the Image will be smalller than that... won't it???
>
> wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.19.bz2
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> tar xfvj linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2; \
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> cd linux-2.4.19; \
> make menuconfig; \
> make dep; make; \
> make modules;
>
> Maybe that helps?

Maybe a little, but there's an obvious bug:)

MfG, JBG 

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