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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  {direc‐
       tory}/vmlinuz  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)