sparc32 etch kernel compile help needed

[Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>]

I'm trying to compile a kernel on etch without success.  I first tried a 
2.6.21-rc1 and it failed to boot because the image was too large.  I 
next tried the debian source in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18.tar with 
the same results.  Both were configured with the config from /boot.

Is the source from debian vanilla or does it have the debian patches 
already installed?  If there something I need to do besides *|make-kpkg 
--initrd kernel_image and |**|dpkg -i .deb?
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