Compiling kernel for FC6 fills up disk space

[ginda]

I have installed Fedora Core 6 and need to compile kernel to add in acpi toshiba support. I followed http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora
and i get an error after running make rpm for about 15 minutes relating no more space available on disk. I checked the disk space and the entire process from start to the make rpm filled up 1900mb of my free disk space, how can i get around this issue? didnt think it would use that much space.

My machine details:
Toshiba A100 Notebook
1.83 Core Duo
512RAM

Kernel source being used - kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.src.rpm

Thanks in advance.

[Ben]

How much space is left in general on that machine?

[ginda]

about 1900mb

[falko]

What's the output of df -h? Do you use LVM?

[ginda]

Hi

I compiled the kernel on another fedora core 6 box i had. I have manged to compile two kernels kernel-2.6.18.1 and kernel-2.6.18.2 and have added toshiba acpi and ieee80211 support as modules i have installed these kernels on my toshiba laptop and setup them up to boot fine.


I am now getting the following problems when i try to load certain modules


[root@localhost ~]# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko': -1 Invalid module format
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe /lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko
FATAL: Module /lib/modules/2.6.18.6_custom/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko not found.

[root@localhost Desktop]# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko': -1 No such device
[root@localhost Desktop]# modprobe /lib/modules/2.6.18.6-custom/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko
FATAL: Module /lib/modules/2.6.18.6_custom/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko not found

Please help

[falko]

Can you try
modprobe ieee80211
modprobe toshiba_acpi
instead?