Hi Guys, I am most definitly a newbie with this topic. I have read a lot on vanilla kernels and custome kernels and 2.6 and all that. So I'm the dot here. If I want to upgrade my kernel without the total distruction of my system, and I say this because lots of people say the have never had any trouble with it. When I try to compile it is always a disaster and ends up with a reload. Since I am behind a firwall I will never get to use apt or yum or UP2date working [I dont know why]. Never could get them working and believe me I had many PCs in that time and all the advice from the lists has made no impact. What I need to know is, is there a really really easy way to to this? Chad