The kernel
Then you start to think of compiling a complete linux system, the first thing you think about is the kernel. Which i - ofcourse - downloaded from www.kernel.org

Ofcouse i didn't just compile it, i made my own configuration. Some special things:

• Processor: i586, no MMX, no bigmem options (64 MB)
• NO support for: SCSI, ISDN, USB, IDE, Special CD-ROM, etc. allmost nothing.
• Since everything will be running from a ramdrive, support for ramdrives and initrd was turned on.
• But ofcourse network support is available. The driver for my network card is Ne2K-PCI.
• Full IP and IPv6 and all tunneling drivers added
• All iptables and ip6tables stuff
• Everything compiled into the kernel, no modules

The used kernel was the just-released 2.6.0, which has changed to 2.6.4, and probably will change in near future to the newest version.

After compiling, this created a ca. 1 MB bzImage.

Since i already compiled kernels before, and kernel compilation can be called the most user-friendly as compiling gets, i got absolutely no problems over here.

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