Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:39:59 -0400 From: Bob Collins <bob@sfcei.com> To: 'Kenneth Wayne Culver' <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HUGE kernel Message-ID: <B9FB8C769C17D411892D00B0D02165320D9D@SF_PDC>
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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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