Re: cleaning up kernel source

What I usually delete is all the alpha/spark/m68k etc stuff that is never going to b used on my 486 system. This should cut down a little on the size. However, if you run a patch on the kerenl, some parts might say that some files are missing, you should just tell patch to skip those files,

Re: cleaning up kernel source

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > "David Morris": > > do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? > > Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header > files as part of the libc5 package. So that's what's been going on. What I've been doing is f

Re: cleaning up kernel source

Hi, >>"David" == David Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled David> a custom kernel yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover David> taking up 30M on my hard drive. And I was wondering what I can David> clean up to free up the s

Re: cleaning up kernel source

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "David Morris": > do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header files as part of the libc5 package. -- Please read

Re: cleaning up kernel source

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, David Morris wrote: > OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled a custom > kernel > yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover taking up 30M on my hard drive. > And I was wondering what I can clean up to free up the space. > > I am tempted to rm -r the

cleaning up kernel source

OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled a custom kernel yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover taking up 30M on my hard drive. And I was wondering what I can clean up to free up the space. I know I can run a make clean to remove the *.o files and other compiling file