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[Jason]

Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> You have to get the kernel sources to get the source code, if you just get
> the kernel RPM thats all you get is a binary.  Thats really the way that you
> want it, because the source code for the kernel is around 112 megs right
> now, and if you just want a working system for a firwall or something like
> that, you might only have 100 megs worth of space on your storage medium for
> the whole system.

is the current kernel that big BEFORE compiling??? I just did a du -sc
* in /usr/src and noticed the following:

66440   linux-2.2.14
74866   linux-2.2.16


This is AFTER I have compiled these, and then proceeded to NOT do a
"make clean". 2.2.16 is only 74MB even with all the .o files...
without the .o output, and after gzip, the kernels are a much smaller
and easier to download size:

15918652 Jan 10  2000 linux-2.2.14.tar.gz
17106471 Jul 29 10:46 linux-2.2.16.tar.gz

17 megs.. seems almost svelte compared to 74 or 112...

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