Which is the Kernel?
 

I have followed the instructions described here but there was a file 2.4.x-mdk and that confused me a lot...

My distro is Mandrake 9.2

Can you help me?

what file? where? :confused:

/usr/src

There

2.4-mdk-xx is your kernel - the xx stands for numbers which change (eg 2.4.26).

So if I compile my new kernel, will I need to rename it to something like 2.6-mdk-xx?

No - it should already be called that.

you really need to ask well backed up and informative questions, we really haven't got much of a clue what you're actually trying to do. Making posts of more than 30 words is normally a good place to start ;)

I am trying to compile a kernel and the names that Mandrake uses are TOO confusing...

This is my first Kernel Compilation.

Believe it or not, it's not that confusing:
2.6.3-4mdk - is my kernel. The 2.6.3 is the kernel version as given by www.kernel.org. The mdk means it's a kernel tweaked and changed by Mandrake to run on Mandrake systems. Any numbers after that are just version numbers of the Mandy version.

A plain kernel will just be 2.6.x or whatever the versions are up to.

So my new kernel will be just 2.6.1 right?

Assuming you d/led it from www.kernel.org and not from RPMDrake/Urpmi, yes.

It is linux-2.6.1.tar.gz right? Should I had downloaded the bzip2 file?

doesn't matter, they will have identical contents, you'd just decompress it with "tar zxvf" instead of "tar jxvf"

but also why are you downloading a kernel that's now out of date? either get 2.6.7 or 2.4.27, as they are the newest in each current branch

I knew that someone was going to ask this question sooner or later...

The actual reason why I am installing an old Kernel, is that the instructions I have in my mother tongue describe a 2.6.1 Kernel installation...