Hi all,
i have an old sony vaio notebook with a p150 mmx cpu and a small - 2 GB - hdd with zipslack from the slackware 10 cd.
when i started to compile a new kernel, i got a strange error message. At first i downloaded the 2.4.27, later i patched to 2.4.28-pre1, but the message still remains.
My gcc version is 3.4.0.
There is no .config from older kernel.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.4.28-pre1/include/linux/modversions.h', needed by `sched.o'. Stop.
I don't know how to fix it. Any idea?

Remove the 2.4.28-pre1 you have, then install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages. That'll give you the correct 2.4.26 kernel, which should work. (You can patch it up later)

This is the one thing that you can't do under ZipSlack -compile kernels. It has to do with the link in /usr/src.
You'll have to 'migrate' your installation to linux partition. See faq.txt for details.

Hello!

gnashley: on this machine i have not enough space to create a new partition. if i haven't enough free space on the windows partition, i can zip the Linux directory. this UMSDOS trick is the best for me.

WMD: i replaced the kernel source as you suggested, but i got the error again.

Thank you for helping. Today morning i had a little time for playing with the kernel. I tested the compiling with different kernel versions. Later i replaced/downgraded the 3.4 GCC to 3.3. TADAA! At last, with the older GCC i created a 100% working kernel from 2.4.26 and 2.4.27 with ZipSlack.
Conclusion: It is possible to compile a 2.4.x kernel with GCC 3.3.4
And now i'm very happy with my little Linux

Oh, that is good to know. I saw that somewhere in the official umsdos docs but glad to know it is no longer valid or whatever.

Now i know, the ZipSlack works well with the 2.4 kernel tree. But here is the 2.6 series There is no UMSDOS support

No umsdos support is planned for the 2.6 kernel series.

On this page i found the following sentence:
"I've begun work on 2.6 UMSDOS support". I trust to hear good news soon