Re: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

[Thorsten Kranzkowski]

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

use 'make boot' instead. this will create arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz

> 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

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