Manual: installkernel

INSTALLKERNEL(8)			   System Manager's Manual			    INSTALLKERNEL(8)

NAME
       installkernel - install a new kernel image

SYNOPSIS
       installkernel version zImage System.map [directory]

DESCRIPTION
       installkernel  installs	a new kernel image onto the system from the Linux source tree.	It is called
       by the Linux kernel makefiles when make install is invoked there.

       The new kernel is installed into {directory}/vmlinuz-{version}.	If a symbolic  link  {directory}/vm‐
       linuz  already  exists,	it is refreshed by making a link from {directory}/vmlinuz to the new kernel,
       and the previously installed kernel is available as {directory}/vmlinuz.old.

BUGS
       installkernel resides in /sbin only because the Linux kernel makefiles call it from there.  It should
       really be in /usr/sbin.	It isn't needed to boot a system.

Debian Linux					 7 Jan 2001				    INSTALLKERNEL(8)