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If the .config is the same, then it is the same and shouldn't matter either :)
Now that I had time to look carefully, I can see that the two .config files are the same.

I am kind of surprised that the two files are the same - I would have expected the file with kernelsource.dsl to be specific to DSL and the one from the linux 2.4.26 sources from kernel.org to be generic. I looked in the DSL download area, but the only .config file I could find seemed to be specific to DSL 2.1 which I believe was Linux 2.4.31 - of course I could have missed the point entirely and the .config file could be specific to a certain Linux version...

The bzimage file I get is +/-3MB whereas minirt24.gz is +/-785KB and linux24 is +/-970KB hence my thinking that I had the wrong .config file.
To easily check next time, you can use `diff myfile1 myfile2`

Generic configs are still good :)

Hm, that is larger and you didnt compile a lot of stuff into the kernel - it's probably a better packaging method I suppose.  Well, as long as you can boot off it, there should be no problem
I discovered I had missed out a step in the recompilation - "make clean", i.e. what I should have typed was:

make mrproper
make oldconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage (or make && make install)
make modules && make modules_install

The bzImage file I get is now +/- 1MB - I renamed this minirt24.gz and tried to boot with it but got a kernel panic message.

Maybe the thing I'm missing is to do something with the new /boot/system.map, vmlinuz and .config files created? I've seen something about using "mkinitrd /boot/initrd" but I get an error that bash doesn't know about this command (gcc1, gcc-2.95 & gnu-utils.dsl are loaded) and I've seen something about editing grub/lilo to point to the new /boot files but in a USB boot I don't have grub/lilo...
I think the bzImage is a compressed kernel package, not the initrd (which as I originally stated, you might not need to replace this)

I think you could also boot off the vmlinuz as the kernel.  The new .config should be what you just changed from the oldconfig.  I think the System.map file should be in the same dir as the vmlinuz if you're using that.
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