The Steps to upgrade kernel

["Gunawan" <jgunawan98 hotpop com>]

Hi,
Thank you for all of your reply regarding the upgrade kernel. I still need
some help.

1. Could you explain to me  what is the purpose of these steps each?
         1. make clean; make mrproper
         2. make xconfig or make menuconfig (I prefer the latter)
         3. make dep
         4. nohup make bzImage
         5. make modules
         6. make modules_install
         7. make install

2. I have download 'linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2' to upgrade the kernel.
    What should I do now? I am new in red hat/linux and almost know nothing.

TIA,
Gunawan