Quoting Marvin Pascual ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Ok, I'll check this out.  But I'll be building my own kernel-2.4.20
> from source.

OK.  By the way, there _are_ official-Debian 2.4.20 kernel-image binary 
packages.  They're just not apt-gettable as part of Debian-stable at the
moment, since they're so new (and thus not mature enough for
Debian-stable).  They're in:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.20-i386/
You can just ftp one of those and install it using "dpkg -i", if you
prefer not to compile your own kernel.

If you _do_ want to compile a custom kernel, here's the Debian-style way
of doing so, so that it carries your own versioning and is tracked by
the package system:

Install the kernel-package package (which provides the make-kpkg
utility).  Then:

     $ cd /directory/where/you/unpacked/a/kernel/tarball
     $ make config | make menuconfig | make xconfig | make oldconfig
     $ make-kpkg clean
     $ make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
     # (as root, or using fakeroot)  dpkg -i
     # ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_.deb

Kirk Strauser has a more-detailed explanation here:
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding

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