On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Timm Gleason wrote:
> Having just started messing around with the 2.1.x kernels with the imminent
> release of 2.2, I am having quite a time of it. I cannot seem to get a
> kernel image to compile that I may use on a floppy disk. First couple of
> times through I tried adding in the bits and pieces that I use in the kernel
> configuration and it wouldn't compile, the kernel size was to large for a
> zImage. Went through and pared out a bunch of stuff, but to no avail.
>
> So, I remove the directory where I was working and untar a fresh copy. make
> mrproper, make menuconfig (and make no changes), make dep, make clean, make
> zImage. Too large.
>
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> Root device is (8, 2)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 1276 bytes.
> System is 543 kB
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/kernel-devel/2.1.129/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
> Out of the box, it's too damn big. How is one supposed to add the features
> that one needs of the default set of configuration choices is too big to
> begin with?
>
> Am I missing something really obvious here, because I am feeling rather
> inadequate about the whole thing right about now.
>
> Timm Gleason
>
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