That is a good point, that was the size after compiling, but needless to
say, my directory after compiling is:
$ du -sc linux-2.2.14/
111M    linux-2.2.14
111M    total

I left a lot of stuff as modules that I don't need at the moment, because I
tend to trade alot of hardware out this this particular system, and I don't
want to have to recompile every time.  I would guess that would probably
have alot to do with it.

Brian Cluff
----- Original Message -----

> 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