On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed: > > I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a > > surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB. IMO increasing the > > sysinstall default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a > > good thing. > > To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big. > It's all the (mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill > up /
Maybe they could be put somewhere else.. I don't think you need them unless remote debugging and in that case you are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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