Thank you Brian and Gary for replying. It is working now. I recently discovered rsync and used it to copy my home directory from RH to Debian. Just now I used it instead of cp to put the kernel image on C:\ and it is working now. Apparently cp messed up the file.
Now I'm upgrading to 2.2.18 kernel and configuring the modules for it. I also had to reconfigure exim and mutt so that my return address would be right and the list would accept my messages :-). This message is coming from debian. -D
