On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
> David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) Instead of "make zImage" do "make bzImage". bzip makes a smaller
> > compressed file.
bzip has nothing to do with this subject, 1) bzip is quite a new
compression program 2) bzImage was a round before bzip was even
thought of.
>
> I'm not totally sure, but "bzImage" has nothing to do with bzip2.
> Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I could either confirm or deny
> this... Richard?, Ray?
>
> > 2) Compile some items as modules instead of into the kernel. Things
> > like sound cards, network cards and so forth have no need to be in the
> > monolithic kernel.
>
> Go all out and put _everything_ you can as modules :)
Thats the best piossable advice, BUT do not put things like ext2
filesystem, harddisk drivers in as modules UNLESS you know what you
are doing otherwise your kernel WILL not boot, you need to change the
way kmod and lilo work to have things like that as modules.
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