[Gllug] Kernel compiling

[William Palfreman]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, t.clarke wrote:

> I am getting to grips with my 2.4.7 kernel compilation.
> It now works with ipchains for the time being (as that is what Redhat has
> configured it to use within init.d scripts).
> 
> Looking at the kernel source tree I note there are a load of directories
> within 'arch' and 'include' which appear to relate to other machine
> architectures other than 'i386' (which I assume is what an AMD K6 uses).
> 
> Can I safely delete all these directories to save space ??

Delete the lot if you like.  All I ever use is
linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage, and the modules make modules_install dumps
in /lib/modules/2.x.x/.  I do wonder sometimes what System.map etc are all
for, but ignoring them doesn't seem to have done me any harm.

-- 
Bill.


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