Alan, The method you describe is the "standard" way of compiling a kernel, but for Centos the method seems to vary... http://webui.sourcelabs.com/centos/mail/user/threads/Run_a_more_recent_kernel_than_2.6.18_on_CentOS%253F.meta http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel -- Test <test at remedial-teacher.nl>