how many times have you upgraded a kernel before? it's a pice of cake to upgrade from 2.0.32 to just about anything.. make menuconfig make dep clean zImage copy the zImage file to /vmlinuz-2.0.34 (my thing) edit your lilo.conf to add a new entry for .34 (i setup lilo so i can boot dozen's of kernels) make modules modules_install done.. everything is happy :)