Installing The New Kernel

• Installing the kernel is split into two parts:
  1. First, installing the kernel itself.
  2. Then, installing the kernel modules.
• Before we install the kernel, we want to make sure we do not overrun our current kernel, or a previously existing kernel.
• So we will install the kernel itself manually.
• Avoiding overrunning the kernel modules is more difficult, since the location of the modules is hard-coded into the kernel (its version number) and the module loading tools.

Originally written by guy keren