System Map

[Duston, Hal]

Gene,

Yes, just make _absolutely_ sure you start from a 
clean/empty tree using "make mrproper".  Then make 
sure you have the correct configuration selected.  The 
System.map is a companion to the bzImage and the modules, 
although I am not sure that anything you would be doing 
would need it.  If you are building the same version of 
kernel that is running on the machine you are using to 
build, you can mv the /lib/modules/<version> dir out 
of the way, and go ahead and do make modules_install.
Then you can just .tgz up that tree, move _it_ out of 
the way, and mv the original one back.  I have used this 
technique to build multiple kernels, and trees on one 
machine before.

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net

Gene Dascher [gedascher at multiservice.com] wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me concisely what the System.map file does?  
> I want to compile a new kernel for my gateway, but I don't 
> have enough disk space, and it's a 486 (kernel compile takes 
> a LONG time).  Can I compile the kernel and associated modules 
> on one machine and then transfer the new bzImage and modules 
> to the other machine?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gene Dascher