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SubjectRE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel
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> 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
> don’t work. I read all the mans that I could lay my grubby little hands on
> 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

Kernel version?

In 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test, there are targets for ALPHA called vmlinux.gz.
Have you tried 'make vmlinux.gz' ?

~Randy



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