kernel update fiasco (depmod)

[Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es>]

Good morning,

I have just installed Slackware-10.2 with kernel 2.4.31 on a Pentium 100 
with 32Mb ram. All packets are from the 1st iso, which I downloaded and 
burned on cd. The problems start when I try to upgrade the kernel using 
the Slackware packet kernel-generic-2.6.13 and the corresponding 
kernel-modules. The 3 symlinks in /boot all point to the right files. 
lilo.conf is set up correctly. I've run lilo -v repeatedly. But the 
system will not boot correctly as the files in /lib/modules/2.6.13 
(modules.dep, etc.) are not being created. (However, I can boot the 
system from a floppy with the 2.4.31 kernel). If I try running depmod 
after booting with the 2.6.13 I just get the message Killed, and the 
following lines appear in var/log/messages:

Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: Mem-info:
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: Free swap:            0kB
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 8192 pages of RAM
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 924 reserved pages
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 16 pages shared
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 5 pages dirty
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 1 pages writeback
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 6298 pages mapped
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 618 pages slab
Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 55 pages pagetables

(The figures vary)

I have tried redownloading and reinstalling the kernel, kernel-modules 
and module-init-tools tgzs. No difference. I replaced the hd (it was 
giving intermittent error messages) and reinstalled. No difference.

Now what?

TIA,

Andrew
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