Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:12:04 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUGE kernel built from 3.2 CDRom Message-ID: <20000410231204.A3861@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <l03020901b518434f39ed@[153.9.17.27]>; from jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:58:36PM -0400 References: <bulk.38192.20000410085533@hub.freebsd.org> <l03020901b518434f39ed@[153.9.17.27]>
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Hi there- By any chance did you run "config -g KERNEL" or do you have a "-g" hanging around in your /etc/make.conf somewhere? It looks like you managed to build a debug kernel, and the debugging symbols are big, as you've noticed. You also noticed that stripping a kernel is going to cause Bad Things(tm) to happen; I wouldn't recommend it. Try building the kernel without debugging symbols, and that should cut its size way down. Eric On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:58:36PM -0400, James B. Wilkinson wrote: > One of the machines in my networking lab has three Ethernet cards in it. > This seems to require a rebuild of the kernel. I edited GENERIC and added > ed1 and ed2 right after ed0. The kernel built fine, and it works ok, but it > is almost 11 MB, whereas the GENERIC kernel is 2,329,748 bytes. So I ran > strip on the new kernel, and that made it small allright, 2017520 bytes. It > still works ok, but dmesg doesn't work with it, and I forgot to try ps, but > I'll bet that it doesn't work, either. Is there something like a partial > strip that I need to do? My root filesystem is getting crowded. > > Thanks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science > jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston > (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 > > If there is one word to describe me, > that word would have to be "profectionist". > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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