Setting up the build enviroment

1. Cross Compiler for i586 kernel

• Download binutils from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1.tar.bz2
• Download gcc-core from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/gcc-core-4.6.2.tar.gz

  
  apt-get install libmpc-dev

export PREFIX=/usr/local/cross export TARGET=i586-elf cd /usr/src mkdir build-binutils build-gcc

cd /usr/src/build-binutils ../binutils-2.21.1/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-nls make all make install

cd /usr/src/build-gcc export PATH=$PATH:$PREFIX/bin ../gcc-4.6.2/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-nls --enable-languages=c --without-headers make all-gcc make install-gcc

2. Build the source code
* Download the latest version from git clone git://github.com/jbussdieker/EOS.git

cd EOS mkdir build make

The kernel is contained in build/kernel.elf

cd EOS/vm sudo losetup /dev/loop0 ./kernel.img

This will mount the kernel floppy image so you can copy the newly compiled kernel over the old one
At this point you should be able to run the OS in VMware!