On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > My question is: > 1) How can I cleanly build a new kernel image (zImage) without affecting > the Debian installation on my PC ?
Use the regular make commands (I think: make mrproper; make menuconfig; make depend; make zImage; But look at the docs to be sure). > 2) How do I then transfer this image to a floppy to make a rescue disk > out of this image so that I can boot the laptop with it ? Write the rescue image to a floppy and mount the floppy as a msdos disk to /mnt. Copy your kernel over the existing one and run whatever script there is (it will do some rdev stuff). I believe there is also a doc on the disk about what needs to be compiled into the kernel (loopback, filesystems, ramdisk, etc). HTH, Brandon
