Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Sunday 2008-07-13 at 22:41 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> That's right, I asked over a year ago, and no one ever answered. Now I'm
> again working on the same bug, but the current 11.0 kernel (2.6.25-1.1),
> initrd & modules consume about 650MB. Someone please tell me how to do
> whatever it takes to reduce the space down to normal size.

I haven't built the factory kernel, but on the stock distro it also takes 
a lot of space. My guess is that the build includes debug info of some 
sort, but I don't know which configuration item to change.

> I've looked on
> http://en.opensuse.org/Configure%2C_Build_and_Install_a_Custom_Linux_Kernel
> and seen that supposedly an RPM can be made from what was built. I need to do
> that too, because it turns out I need to try it on a different system from
> the one I built it on. However, something seems to be missing on that page. I
> don't see where I'm supposed to set BKINSTALLRPM=yes to make it happen, nor
> do I see anything there about bloated modules.

I don't know the answer, and I'm also interested.


See? You got an answer this time, even if it doesn't solve anything ;-)

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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