[TriLUG] RH8 & Kernel Compilation

[Ken Mink]

Hi, 
  I have a fairly vanilla install of RH8, including errata. I need to
recompile the kernel. The kernel source rpm is installed. I can't seem
to get a successful compilation, even using RedHat's configs. It fails
at different points, so I'm really at a loss as to what the problem is.
Sometimes it will fail during 'make bzImage' and sometimes during 'make
modules'. The last attempt ended with gcc seg faulting. 
  The machine I'm trying it on is a Duron based laptop, nothing special.
I'm also getting the same results with the stock kernel source from
kernel.org. Any ideas? 

The steps I'm using: 
make xconfig 
make dep 
make clean 
make bzImage 
make modules 

Ken