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Alan Cox wrote:

>>I am trying to compile the 2.2.19 kernel one one machine for  installation
>>on another.  I believe I need to do more than just copy over  bzImage and
>>modify lilo.conf, but I don't know what.  Is there documentation somewhere
>>on how to do this?  Thanks.
>>
> 
> Other than making sure you configure it for the box it will eventually run
> on - nope you have it all sorted. If you use modules you'll want to install
> the modules on the target machine too

On a related note... is System.map also necessary?  Anyone care to explain 

what System.map does?  I have noticed that my kernel works with or 
without that file, but just figured it was a good question to ask in 
this thread.