I found something strange. My Knoppix 3.2's /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs is 925720 bytes. However, when I compile a plain 2.4.20 with Knoppix' /usr/src/linux/.config, I can't get an image smaller than 2645504 bytes. Thats using a make oldconfig (selecting no to the 2 new options), make clean, make bzImage with gcc-2.95 on a system that was distupgraded a few days ago.

I would love to know how Knoppix gets all its stuff in such a small kernel since lilo always complains that mine are too big.