Here's what you have been waiting for. You got the kernel source and made a package. Now we get to install it.

First, more words of warning. Woody users may first want to install a stock 2.4 kernel before a custom kernel. There are a few changes in lilo.config that the stock kernel install script instructs you to make. I don't know if kernel-package routine does the same thing. You also read my warning about backing up things you care about before you play.

Now get the package to the machine you compiled it for, make yourself root and istall it like any other package by typing:

dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.22-subarchitecture_your_kernel_name_i386.deb

Look out for error messages and reboot your machine. The scripts should have changed your system maps and re-configured your boot loader.