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Originally posted by gsibble I don't need it to do ANYTHING.
Not to be a smart-aleck, but surely it would need to do something, right? Perhaps if you went to Kernel.org and retrieved the earliest available kernel, it would be the smallest, and would meet your "smallest" criteria. -- J.W.
Originally posted by J.W. Not to be a smart-aleck, but surely it would need to do something, right? Perhaps if you went to Kernel.org and retrieved the earliest available kernel, it would be the smallest, and would meet your "smallest" criteria. -- J.W.
I really don't though. It's for an engineering class.
If you can use a decent sized drive, you could just modularize practically everything you were allowed to, as well as cut out all disks and everything and it could actually be functional.
Jeez, I just tried a 2.6 with almost NOTHING, just ext2, mouse and a thing or two else and it was 700k. I'd definately take the advice to go back to a much older kernel.
You can get ANY old kernel in the kernel.org archives. The 1.x series were quite small, tho you will find that a stripped down current 2.2 kernel (or 2.0) will probably do for what you want... the 2.x series are still used by a lot of people... I have a machine running 2.2 stll, but it would be a big kernel I think.
And yep, my fairly stripped down useable 2.6.8.1 kernel is about 1.6 meg compressed
I just checked. My 2.2 kernel machine has a loaded up kernel and it's 579066 (vmlinuz) so a stripped down 2.2 might do you. The current is 2.2.26 - should be able to get that down to nothing I would think...
A 2.4 kernel should fit your requirements... I currently run a 2.4.27 (with few patches like low-latency) and it's 861Ko and I know it can be smaller: 1 network card, a.out and misc binary support, devfs filesystem, module support for my graphic card driver... can be removed
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