Hello Steve, on Monday, May 22, 2000 at 22:08:31 +0200, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:

Hi everyone.

SuSE 6.4 with 2.2.14

In /usr/src there is a directory /linux which points to /usr/src/linux-2.2.14. So to compile the kernel I did cd /usr/src/linux and did make menuconfig. Nothing to make it says. I see also that the sources are actually in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14.SuSE. So I went to that directory and compiled the kernel:

make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install bzlilo

A kernel appeared and it worked fine. My question is: I am left with a system.map and a system.map-2.2.14. Clearly by looking at the date and time it is the system.map-2.2.14 that is the correct map for the kernel. This is not what it says in the manual. Is there anything incorrect in what I am doing?

No, there is nothing wrong in what you did. The fact that the System.map has the -2.2.14 extension is normal. This file should always ends the same way the kernel image does. This is to make the difference between each kernel builds.

Should I change the link at /usr/src/linux to point to the 2.2.14.SuSE directory instead?

You'd better do it.

vmlinuz size is 700340. Is this reasonable? (standalone, internet browsing, scanner and basic stuff) Or should I try harder?

Thanks, Steve.

This is fairly large! Mine is 473308 and I almost does the same things as you (except scanner) but if everything runs fine, you don't have to mind. -- Jean-François Bocquet <tns01@free.fr> === Error is not forever, hope for right+ |== ICQ: 69968770 ====================== Darkness is not the opposite of light| |== http://tns01.free.fr =========== -But only absence- day will follow night.| +-- Linux User #177410 ---------------------------------------------*-- Lowell+ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/