[Linux-visws-devel] 2.4.17 kernel

[Steve A. <al...@do...>]

Hi.

Trying to install on a VW 320...

Using the directions and files available at http://linux-visws.sourceforge.net/
it's able to boot the kernel and load the ramdisk, but when I insert the CDROM
for RH6.2 (and press return), the CDROM drive blinks once and does no more.
Same with several other versions of RH Linux.

So, I've been trying to get 2.4.17 to load.  I have managed to build
arcloader-2003, but have not managed to make a form of the 2.4.17 kernel
that it's happy with.  (I'm assuming I need to apply some kind of compression
to it because it's too big to fit on the floppy.)  A simple gzip -9 just
yields a "kernel format unrecognized" error.  Same with bzip2.  I did a
kernel build on a regular RH8.0 system (2.4.18 kernel), then copied its
final steps for building a bzImage file.  That effort first yielded a
"loading gzip compressed kernel image" message, followed by the "kernel
format unrecognized" error.

Am I headed in the right direction?  Barking up the wrong tree?  A bit of
clue would be appreciated.

Thanks,
~Steve