program cc1 got fatal signal 6

["Walter L. Preuninger II" <walterp@walterp.rapidramp.com>]

I just recently installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 cd
set. This is the best distribution, after trying the others on the cd set.
I have this one problem though, I can't compile a kernel. I have tried both 2.0.20 and 2.0.21.

Here is a paste of the exact place and errors:

make zlilo
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586  -c -o console.o console.c
cpp: output pipe has been closed
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
make[3]: *** [console.o] Error 1

Here is /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 586
model           : Pentium 60/66
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
stepping        : 5
fdiv_bug        : yes
hlt_bug         : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid           : yes
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 26.52

Here is the output of free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         14624       9460       5164       6396       1504       4404
-/+ buffers:             3552      11072
Swap:        40788       2232      38556

The output of gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/specs
gcc version 2.7.2

Here is the output of ldconfig -v
ldconfig: version 1.7.14
/usr/local/lib:
/usr/lib:
        libgpm.so.1 => libgpm.so.1.06
        libproc.so.0.99 => libproc.so.0.99
        libgdbm.so.1 => libgdbm.so.1.7.3
        libdb.so.1 => libdb.so.1.85.2
        libhistory.so.2.0 => libhistory.so.2.0
        libpanel.so.3.0 => libpanel.so.3.0
        libmenu.so.3.0 => libmenu.so.3.0
        libform.so.3.0 => libform.so.3.0
        libpthreads.so.1 => libpthreads.so.1.60.beta2
/lib:
        libe2p.so.2 => libe2p.so.2.1
        libext2fs.so.2 => libext2fs.so.2.0
        libss.so.2 => libss.so.2.0
        libcom_err.so.2 => libcom_err.so.2.0
        libreadline.so.2.0 => libreadline.so.2.0
        libncurses.so.3.0 => libncurses.so.3.0
        libm.so.5 => libm.so.5.0.5
        libc.so.5 => libc.so.5.2.18
        libdl.so.1 => libdl.so.1.7.14

If there is any more info, please let me know. I am not sure that my mail is    configured properly, so reply to walterp@rapidramp.com

Thanks In Advance,

Walter L. Preuninger II