From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 11:42: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shark.flips.net (shark.flips.net [208.214.176.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F29337C090 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@sfcei.com) Received: from sf_pdc.sfcei.com (miami-ip-1-175.dynamic.ziplink.net [209.206.88.175]) by shark.flips.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60222U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:51:15 -0400 Received: by SF_PDC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: From: Bob Collins To: 'Kenneth Wayne Culver' Cc: "FreeBSD (E-mail)" Subject: RE: HUGE kernel Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:39:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Ken and Mark for VERY quick responses. > What version of FreeBSD is this? 3.2 Stable. Came with the Book by Greg Lehey. I picked up the book w/ CDs at CompUSA. > you can drop the mfs stuff > the nfs stuff is in a module, you can drop it too > you can get rid of userconfig and visual userconfig... unless you need > you may wanna add flags 0xa0ff to the end of the wdc0 and wdc1 lines.. > you could get rid of this unless you need it. Will do. > Other than those things... I'm not sure why your kernel is so > god-aweful Mark Owens suggested that I ran config with the -g flag, as noted below. MO >I bet it's a debug kernel. You either ran config(8) with the ``-g'' option MO >or the ``CLAGS='' line in /etc/make.conf includes ``-g''. MO >You can always strip the debug info out of the kernel you have built MO >with # chflags -noschg /kernel # strip -g /kernel # chflags -schg /kernel MO >but you'd be better finding what caused a debug kernel to be built in MO >the first place. I did! The book said so, but neve mentioned the down side to that. > big... I think maybe the generic kernel is gzipped though. Is it a good idea to gzip the kernel? Thanks so much. You are making my transition from Windoze and Linux a joy! Bob "soon to know something about FreeBSD" Collins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message