Kernel compiling.

[Aleramo]

Thank u rusty, i know kanotix yet, i have it installed in my laptop, but i didn't know it's better than knoppix to install.
If i won't solve my problems i'll install it.

[angor]

>cp bzImage /boot

I'd suggest "cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8" (if that is your
version). That way you keep this around when you upgrade to
2.6.17.9 or whatever instead of overwriting /boot/bzImage.
You'll also want to "cp /path/to/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.17.8"
Personally, I also copy .config to /boot/config-2.6..., so I can later
tell how the kernel was configured in the past.

>Now i have to configure the boot loader to load the new kernel. What have i to do?

AFAIK Knoppix uses the grub bootloader with which I have no experience.
Perhaps someone else can take it up from here.

[angor]

Oops, I forgot one real "gotcha"... during "make menuconfig"
please make sure you did NOT choose your filesystem
(probably ext3) as a module, because that module cannot be
loaded before the filesystem can be read, and the filesystem
cannot be read before the module is loaded...