mkdir kernel cd kernel wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2 cd git-core-0.99.7 make install cd .. git clone rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux cd linux git checkout