From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 8:50:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparticus.bright.net (sparticus.bright.net [205.212.123.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBFF15052 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slay3241@bright.net) Received: from bright.net (akro-max1-cs-20.dial.bright.net [209.143.19.22]) by sparticus.bright.net (8.9.3/8.9.3 ComNet Build) with ESMTP id LAA15294 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3810879B.EC8F4DB3@bright.net> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:49:47 -0400 From: bill slaybaugh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD List Subject: newbie kernel question- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a recent entry to the FreeBSD realm, having used several versions and distributions of Linux. Using 3.2, I just built my first custom kernel. Nothing fancy; pretty much just turning off devices and options that weren't needed. I was pretty surprised when the size of the new kernel came back as 5980783, when the generic kernel had been 2329748. It does load faster, what with skipping unnecessary probing. Why so much larger than the generic? This is probably a classic newbie misunderstanding - - and I'm in new territory. Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message