[Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

[jamie rishaw at google mail]

> However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space
> issue or that size doesn't matter.  Size does matter.
> 
> For a 64MB CF this would be a deal killer, 

Not if you can turn it off.. which was said in the OP

> and that's the size of the
> parts we're using now.  With our X based systems, these cards are
> starting to fill up.  In addition, we sometimes deploy new kernels to
> the field and 16MB takes a lot longer to upload than 3MB (think really
> bad connectivity to many of the remote locations our systems may be
> deployed in).

[?relevance?]

> I also have several machines where / is short on disk space, and I'd
> turn it off for them.  It is simply too much extra to put on there.  I
> could repartition these machines, but that's a huge pita and costs way
> too much in time and down time to do.  The cost here isn't in disk
> space, but the hundreds or thousands of dollars of labor and/or
> opportunity costs.

Sure. If you dont read /usr/src/UPDATING .

In which case, it's your own fault.  :-)

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