Syslinux - Dec 2003 - Where to obtain (how to build) small enough workablekernel?

rename the VMlinuz*.* to file 'vmlinuz' (no quotes ofcourse).

a bootfloppy leaves me enough diskspace, not 860KB.
format as FAT12 (ofcourse),
install Syslinux 
(I do this on Win2K with syslinux.exe A:, win9x: syslinux.com A:)

my example: http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/fdboot.img
unfortunately no Linux involved.

If I could only show a Knoppix bootfloppy (but it's part of a 700MB
download).
anyways, the following files should be present (MEMDISK optional)

ldlinux.sys	 8.104	Systeembestand	09/12/2003  17:05:56
MEMDISK	        23.548	Bestand	05/12/2003  15:51:42
syslinux	16.228	Bestand	05/12/2003  15:51:36
syslinux.cfg	   553	CFG-bestand	17/12/2003  15:07:20


something like this should work for isolinux.cfg

LABEL knoppix
    kernel VMLINUZ
     append ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi
hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi vga=791
initrd=MINIROOT.GZ nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=KNOPPIX

the knoppix floppy file contains:
ldlinux.sys
syslinux
syslinux.cfg
vmlinuz        600KB or so
initrd.gz      300KB or so.

this means you should have plenty of space.
I don't know if anyone has succeeded in a Linux 2.6 bootdisk with a somehow
compressed kernel (bzImage or maybe UPX 1.90).

this is all the help I can offer as an end-user.

regards,

Bernd Blaauw