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Re: make custom kernel

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On 2021-07-04 16:26, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 03 Jul 2021 at 19:53:03 (+0100), mick crane wrote:
>> I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order.
>> What's the procedure for making a custom kernel?
>> Install linux headers
>> change to a "build" directory
>> make menu-config
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make dep
>> make install
>> make clean
>> ?
> 
> There used to be a kernel-package, which I used until about 15 years
> ago when the kernels got too complex for me to bother. The last
> version I've found is jessie's, and its manpages, docs and howtos may
> be worth reading through.
> 
> That said, if customising your kernel is for fixing your room problem,
> then I would exhaust all the other courses of action first.
> (And I would investigate why your initrd files are /so/ large.)
> 
> Cheers,
> David.

How would you suggest I find out why initrd files are so big and how 
make it smaller?
As I can make out the initrd image contains the modules it thinks are 
needed?
How to make it smaller without building new kernel ?

cheers
mick
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make custom kernel mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-07-03 21:00 +0200
  Re: make custom kernel Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-03 23:30 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-07-04 03:40 +0200
  Re: make custom kernel mlnl <mlnl@mailbox.org> - 2021-07-04 07:30 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-04 11:00 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-07-04 12:30 +0200
      Re: make custom kernel The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-04 12:30 +0200
        Re: make custom kernel IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-07-04 12:40 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-07-04 13:50 +0200
  Re: make custom kernel David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-04 17:30 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-07-04 18:50 +0200
    Re: make custom kernel Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-04 19:30 +0200

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