hello! I have tried the steps you told me but I still have problem. these are the steps i done first I unpacked the kernel source. tar -zxf linux-2.5.54.tar.gz then i typed make make menuconfig. in menuconfig i configured my kernel with sound support, usb and braille voyager support. the rest of the kernel stuff i needed selected I as loadable modules except for the filesystems, paralell and serial ports , keyboard cd and floppy drive. then i saved my cnages. then i typed make dep. i got a message saying that it was nothing to be done with dep. then i typed make modules and make modules_install. and that worked. then i tried two ways. first of all i tried to make a bzImage. and it ended upp with that my kernel was too big to fit on a floppy drive. for some reason iI don't have a /usr/src/linux directory. why do you think i don't have one? then i searched a bit and found the linux kernel in t the arch/i386/boot subdirectory of the kernel source. i copied the bzImage to my loadlin directory and tried to load linux wiht the command i always use. but the system didn't boot. I thought that this was a bz image and my system had trouble with booting such ones so i tried to make a zimage install. but i got the message that my system was too big. and i should try modules or a bzImage. iI don't believe that I have compiled a real kernel. i have also tried the samme with the make oldconfig but with no sucsess. what is wrong with my kernel compilation? thanks in advance kristoffer -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]För Doug Skickat: den 26 juni 2003 17:03 Till: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Ämne: Re: SV: kernel compilation > make clean It is usually best to do make mrproper which is a more extensive clean But it will delete your .config so if you want to keep it, copy it elsewhere then copy it back in. If you want to compile a kernel using an old .config file, you can do a make oldconfig So let's say you grab a kernel from ftp.kernel.org. I always do this: make mrproper make config make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install If you save your .config file and want to a completely fresh compile, do make mrproper copy the .config to /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install -- Doug _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list