Just one, but an important one: when installing a distribution kernel,
you never want to do 

rpm -Uvh /path/to/kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm

but rather 

rpm -ivh ... 

Because -U (upgrade) will *REMOVE* the old kernel's entry from the
bootloader's configuration. If the new kernel is buggy, you're
toast[0]. Always leave the old kernel as a backup. 

Sorry I couldn't make it to the talk... 

[0] unless you use grub's ability to edit the configuration file at
boot time, and you have old vmlinuzs sitting around, but that is not
exactly pleasant.  

Cheers, 
Muli 

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