kernel 2.2.6

[Anonymous Coward <dacaje@tir.com>]

i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user.  i just got
slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it.  i downloaded kernel
2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin86 package
so then that worked.  now i try to compile and i get this message at the
end after everythings all done:

Root device is (3,5)
Boot sector is 512 bytes
Setup is 1286 bytes
System is 526 kB
System is too big.  try using bzImage or modules.


bzImage does not work and my kernel is in no way bloated.  i only
included standard stuff and it was practically the same as i had 2.0.36
except for joystick support.  what can i do?