insmod and lsmod is not working.

[Ajiyos Yohannan <ajiyos_yohannan usswi com>]

Hi,
I have installed Redhat linux 7.1 in my machine. Then I compiled the
kernel using following commands.
make menuconfig(Enabled module loading)
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
I copied the bzImage from linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2 .Then I configured the lilo.conf, booted through the
new kernel and typed lsmod. But it is not listing any modules, but the
header

Modules         size  used

insmod is also not working. The file /proc/modules of my system is
empty.

Also I am not able to edit the files in /proc folder. I dont have
permission even to change the access rights of the files and directories
inside /proc directory although I logged in as root. Is there any way in
which I can edit the files and directories in /proc directory?

Hope you will help me to solve these problems. I am a newbie to linux
Kernels.

Thanks in advance
Ajiyos Yohannan