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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
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Subject: Stripping the kernel
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Does anyone else thing this might be a good idea?

Change /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386's install line to:

install -s -c -m 555 -o root -g wheel -fschg kernel /

The reason is this: I compiled a kernel with debug symbols (-g) and it
tried to install an 8 MB kernel; stripped, it was 800k.

Evan