Would someone kindly help in understanding all those new files after
launching "make zImage"?
This is a old system going from 2.035 to 2.0.38 and it is the first
time I ever altered a system so deeply.
This is what I got after compiling:
In /usr/src/linux/ a vmlinux exe file, ~1,2 MB large.
In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ a zImage with -rw-.. and 0.5MB
'small'.
In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/ -
vmlinux (executable, -rwx...) ,>0.5 MB small
vmlinux.out (executable, -rwx...) and >0.5 MB small
I'm quite pertubed about these files since I never had heard/read of
and noone seems to bother about them.
Would compiling a 2.2.x kernel create the same (useless?) files?
Additional - where does "dmesg" extract the messages out of? The files
mentioned in man dmesg are empty, so I guess they're in RAM?
Robert
