Hello. I am using a Pentium 2, 350 mhz, 64 mb of RAM. I do not know how to make boot floppies, but I think you get the boot-floppies package. The problem I think was not the kernel but the drivers and modules. I needed to load a module for my network card. I had the 2.2.20 kernel with speech, but the drivers on the CD would not work. They gave me a bunch of errors about unresolved symbols and quit. I am not sure how the driver disks are created.