Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:29:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Bob Collins <bob@sfcei.com> Cc: "FreeBSD (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HUGE kernel Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006131528160.7482-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <B9FB8C769C17D411892D00B0D02165320D9D@SF_PDC>
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Well, I didn't even think about the debug... oops :-) Anyway, the suggestions I made should make the kernel smaller still... gzipping the kernel is something that's sometimes done in order to fit it on a floppy... I think maybe the generic kernel (at least the one used in the install process) is gzipped... ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bob Collins wrote: > 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
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