On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:10, Wayne Leutwyler wrote: > Thanks Scot these are all good points. There is no real machine I am doing > this on, its more of something I was wondering. > > Maybe I did not ask my question correctly. > > Are there any benefits from building a custom kernel, aside from a smaller > kernel and smaller modules foot print. About the only benefits I can think of is possibly smaller kernel size (assuming you eliminate drivers and modules you don't need or use). I'm not even sure this will get you that much. I would have expected to see floppy based 2.6 kernels if enough space could be squeezed out of it to make it fit. I think the only solutions for a floppy based boot may be boot strapping from a 2.4 kernel but I am just guessing about that. Aside from being a good learning experience I don't know that it will buy you that much. Not to say that under certain circumstances it could be the right thing to do. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
