Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

[Andrew Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>]

I just finished compiling my own kernel( 2.0.34), and it comes out of size
788K, which is too big for Lilo to handle.
Are there any ways around it?

I tried make bzImage, like HOWTO suggested, but at the end of compilation
I get:
as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.a
make[1]: as86: Command not found
make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

It still produces a vmlinux file in /usr/src, though. But I don't know if
this is how bzImage is supposed to work.
Any ideas on what to do about that error and/or how to make LILO work with
a kernel of that size?

TIA,
 Andrew