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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: > I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my > home directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also > used cat /dev/fd0 > /home/david/vmlinuz and it did the same thing.) > > Everything is OK, except the file size of this new kernel looks like > its the size of an unformatted disk, i.e. 1.47 Mb. The past kernel was > about 350Kb, but had extraneous stuff. Probably it is exactly the size of an unformatted disk, since it's basically an exact copy of the floppy. Likely only a part of that file is the actual kernel, while the rest is boot information or empty space. > I reran lilo and booted off the hard drive, and the new kernel works > fine. Should the fact that this custom/slimmer kernel is larger in > size than the stock Debian kernel (by about 4X) worry me? Just out of curiousity, why can't you install the kernel normally, using make-kpkg (from the kernel-package package) or the directions in the kernel docs? - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/QCh77M/9WKZLW5AQHpewP9EdO6VDp0E0SULuOK3xHIdEPCarWy1Zs8 mRen88fViVZsUYGfdz9+D0ISsrqoXeDM2unpaHWl3jWHT0aeMFGutGX9UlVOUzAf JdJacoOIBYiOUOsBRmDh82WY4EYguRwDXAPobLsSHWNVSdiIaWYn0a05xtHQbhW6 fP8sYgI6GVY= =ZVbI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----