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In article <5g6be7$6aq@bonnie.fishy.net>:
|In article <5fcn8q$ibo@news.planet.net.au> you wrote:
|:  machine hoping to get my SBCD (IDE) 4xSpeed running.. I did a "makeconfig",
|:  then "make dep". Things went OK until I tried to copy the zImage file to /dev/fd0. 
|: There was no zImage anywhere to be found. I had done a "make zImage" instead  
|: because I got there was a "No rules to make..." when trying a "make
|:  Image". Could somebody please help. Many thanks in advance.
|
|Actually - the idiot proof way to do this is:
|
|1. put the floppy in the drive (/dev/fd0)
|2. type the following:
|
|[/usr/src/linux]$ make zdisk
|
|If you have already compiled the kernel, this will just compile a few
|files again and then put zImage on the floppy for you without you even
|knowing where it is hidden.
|
|Regards,
|Chris.

Actually I contend that it's no more difficult to put the new kernel on
the disk and add another entry to lilo.conf so that you can select the
new kernel, and still have the old one to fall back on, instead of
messing with floppies. You can have as many kernels as you like in a
lilo config. You will have to learn to alter lilo.conf anyway if you
want to make the new kernel permanent so why not start now?

The slides on the talk on compiling a kernel I gave at the last SLUG
meeting are somewhere at http://www.slug.org.au