First you need to get the base bootfloppies from any debian mirror from the debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/. You need the files:

• images-1.44/bf24/root.bin
• images-1.44/bf24/rescue.bin
• bf24/drivers.tgz

Compile your kernel as usual - be shure to integrate ramdisk support. Better to start from the debian config found in the rescue.bin as config.gz.

After compiling the kernel mount the rescue.bin as loop anywhere you want:

	mount -o loop -t msdos rescue.bin /mnt/loop
											

Then you should issue these commands:

	rm /mnt/loop/{sys_map.gz,linux.bin,config.gz}
	cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /mnt/loop/linux.bin
	gzip <System.map >/mnt/loop/sys_map.gz
	gzip <.config >/mnt/loop/config.gz

Unmount the floopy with umount /mnt/loop and write to a disk and boot. The kernel should come up and ask for the root.bin based floppy. I used the unmodified root.bin disk.

To create the new driver floppys you will need to install the kernel modules to a directory like this:

 make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/tmp/new-modules modules_install

Change to that directory and create a new .tgz file from it.

	cd /tmp/new-modules/
	tar -zcvf ../modules.tgz .

Now extract the drivers.tgz you got from the debian mirror to a directory. Delete the pcmcia.tgz and the modules.tgz files and copy the modules.tgz to that directory. Now create a new drivers.tgz from it. You might also change the modcont file to no contain any directorys in the pcmcia section.

	mkdir /tmp/newdriver
	cd /tmp/newdriver
	tar -zxvf ../drivers.tgz
	rm pcmcia.tgz modules.tgz
	cp ../modules.tgz .
	tar -zcvf ../drivers-new.tgz

Now you need to split the drivers-new.tgz into floppy sized chunks. You need to use the floppy_split utility which i got from the debian cvs.