From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Will L G <diskman@kc.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:50:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903045032.GB24145@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004801c371c1$fc64b0f0$6501a8c0@zephyr>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0500, Will L G wrote:
> 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
>
I'm pretty sure I already booted mine with a vmlinux.gz kernel which simply was
a gzip applied to a normal vmlinux image.
Regards,
willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 2:20 Will L G
2003-09-03 2:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-09-03 4:50 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2003-09-03 9:22 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
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