From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264022AbTICCZE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:25:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264027AbTICCZE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:25:04 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com ([24.94.166.129]:51164 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264022AbTICCZB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:25:01 -0400 From: "Will L G" To: Subject: RE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: <004801c371c1$fc64b0f0$6501a8c0@zephyr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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