Linked by Ben Hughes on Tue 5th Oct 2004 19:16 UTC
GNU/Linux, and all other operating systems, are based around a kernel which controls hardware access and maximizes CPU and RAM efficiency by controlling when and how much programs get to use. The difference between Linux and most other operating systems (closed source ones at least BSD and other open source OS's you can do this with) is that you can compile the kernel to meet your needs.
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A nice HOWTO, but I quess there are already many documents on the internet about how to install a new kernel.
However, I like the idea of using a boot-CD in case your current kernel is no longer working. But if you got your distro on cd-rom, you can just copy the default kernel back?
Anyway, one should not need to boot from CD. After compiling a new kernel, just don;t delete the old one and make sure you can still boot using the old kernel.