Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseen this before

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Mon May 8 13:57:33 2000

> >Boy things have changed. When I first got into Linux, I ran it on a 40 MB
> >MFM drive and had lots of space to spare. Of course that was no TCP/IP and
> >certainly no GUI crap, and it didn't even have vi. But it might be a fun
> >exercise to put together a similarly minimal config from the latest sources,
> >it would probably still fit in a couple of cylinders of a modern disk drive.
>
> I dunno. Seems like whenever I try to build a minimal kernel these days, LILO
> tells me it's too big. Of course, it has been some time since I built
> one without
> networking...
>
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>

The kernel just needs to be build with make bzImage (this is the replacement
for the gzipped zImage...)

Lilo handles it just fine after that.



Bill
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Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 13:57:33 BST

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