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		      KERNEL COMPILE MINI-HOWTO

			   Brian Reifsnyder
		      reifsnyderb@mindspring.com

			     Jan 22 2000
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As requested, here is how I compiled the kernel:

1.  First, I copied the kernel source zip file into a subdirectory
  called "kernel" on my DOS box so that it would not unzip in the root
  directory.

2.  Unzip the source code.  Don't forget to make sure that the
  directory structure will be unzipped as well.  I used PKUNZIP and
  the command is: PKUNZIP -d KER2017F.ZIP

3.  Make sure you have either Borland TC 2.01 or Borland TC++ 3.0
  installed on your computer.  If you don't, you can go out to
  Borland's web site and download TC 2.01 for free.  Borland's web
  site is at: http://community.borland.com/museum (Unfortunately, they
  now make you give them all your personal information in order to
  login and download the free software.)  :-(

Note: If you have Borland TC++ 3.0 the instructions are the same but
  the pathing and which statements get unREM'd out will be
  different in the instructions below.  (I haven't tried compiling the
  kernel with TC++ 3.0 yet.)

4.  Make sure that you have NASM installed on your computer.  The
  latest version is 0.98 and the web site is:
  http://www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm

5.  On my computer TC 2.01 is installed in the subdirectory C:\TC201
 and NASM is installed in the subdirectory C:\NASM.

6.  Make sure that the PATH=statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file has
  pathing for both TC201 and NASM.  The path command for my computer
  is:
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\;C:\PKWARE;C:\TC201;C:\TC201\INCLUDE;C:\TC201\LIB;C:\NASM
  (I added the \INCLUDE and \LIB directories as an overkill, just in case.)

7.  Make sure that the set MAKE= statement in the CONFIG.B file is set
  appropriately for your system.  If you have TC 3.0, it will need
  changed.

8.  Copy the CONFIG.B file to CONFIG.BAT

9.  Edit the CONFIG.M file appropriately for your system.  Almost
  everything it REM'd out and you will have to delete the "#'s" in
  the statements appropriate to the C compiler you have installed.

10.  Copy the CONFIG.M file to CONFIG.MAK

11.  Go down one subdirectory to the \LIB subdirectory and edit the
  LIBM.MAK file similar to the way you edited the CONFIG.M file in
  item 9 above and return to the previous subdirectory level.

12.  Type "BUILD" and the kernel should be created in the \BIN
  subdirectory.

13.  To create a boot disk go to the \BIN subdirectory, place a blank
  formatted floppy disk (1.44MB 3.5") in drive A: and type INSTALL A:
  After the batch file finishes you should have a FreeDOS boot disk
  with the compiled kernel.

Note: If for some reason the build fails, and the kernel is not
  created, do the following:

         1.  Try running the clean batch file and then running BUILD.

         2.  Try running the clean batch file, the clobber batch file,
               then running BUILD.

         3.  If that doesn't work, post a question to the list because
               I don't know what happened.