2.6.7 kernel

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Fri Aug 13 21:04:05 UTC 2004


> Richard E Miles wrote:
> 
> > The 2.6 kernels are too big to fit on a floppy.
> 
> This isn't strictly true.
> Eg my vmlinux-2.6.7 is 1165572 bytes in size,
> and initrd-2.6.7.img is 115491 bytes,
> so they could easily fit on a 1.4MB floppy.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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> 

Sorry I disagree. You forgot the ldlinux.sys file.
Here is what I get on my system:
boot.msg	0
initrd.img	95232
ldlinux.sys	8104
syslinux.cfg	0
vmlinux		1360550
		_______
		1463886

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097





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