Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:22:55 +0000 | From | Thorsten Kranzkowski <> | Subject | Re: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel |
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0500, Will L G wrote: > I was wondering, is there some method or utility that will allow me to > compress my kernel (vmlinux)? I was running an alpha and bzImage and zImage > dont work. I read all the mans that I could lay my grubby little hands on
use 'make boot' instead. this will create arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz
> but none of them mentioned HOW one is the compress a vmlinux kernel. > > The reason ask this is, I boot to linux using an OLD IDE drive and it takes > sometime to read a 7mb file. I noticed that the original kernel > (Redhat/Compaq derivative) was compressed and somewhat smaller, about less > than half the size. Thanks, Will L G
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