A friend and I used to compete on kernel size. Research the kernel features we actually used, which would be necessary during boot, etc. This was either late 2.

A friend and I used to compete on kernel size. Research the kernel features we actually used, which would be necessary during boot, etc. This was either late 2.4 kernels or early 2.6 ones. I don't remember for sure, but I think we hit about 800KB, and would've had to start adding more modules into the initrd to get smaller.