Dear all,
I've just compiled a new kernel and the vmlinuz is over 2Mb in size. Since mkbootdisk returns : Not enough space and I don't have a CD writer on my system, I'm unable to create a boot disk and am a little wary about not having one.
Is this a compressed kernel? I suspect not, since "make bzImage" usually generates a kernel named bzImage, not vmlinuz.
How does one know what are the minimum options to choose in order to reduce the size of the vmlinuz? My system is a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT (Celeron 266 Mhz)
There is no useful general answer to this question. Start from a sensible .config file (one as-shipped with the kernel source is usually fairly sensible) and do as much as you can as modules instead of compiling into the kernel. But in the end, you really need to do a long march through one of the make procedures (personally, I'm a fan of "make menuconfig", but tastes vary), adding in only the parts you need. (Once you get a bit of practice, this is not hard to do ... custom kernels are normally smaller than stock kernel images, not bigger).
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