Rebuilding and installing kernel

[Alan Cox]

> Bottom line is, I can pick one of the ways I get with google, and 
> hope it works, but if there is a single definitive authoritative 
> canonical site out there that describes The Right Way, I'd appreciate 
> hearing about it.

If you are not building rpm packages of it then

make oldconfig
make
make install

should do the trick, or

make
cp image somewhere
mkinitrd ...

if you want to put the bits in defined places of your own