How to rebuild the kernel for the network install

[David Lehman]

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:57 +0200, Joshua C. wrote:
> As the title says, I'd like to reinstall fedora 15 with the netinstall
> image because it's about 100mb (kernel and initrd) instead of the
> install dvds. My problem is that those files located in
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/x86_64/os/isolinux/
> have long been outdated. As you can see the kernel is only 3.7mb and
> the initrd almost 94mb. How to rebuild them from the latest
> kernel-2.6.40.4-6.fc15?

Does your hardware require the newer kernel? If not, just do the install
with the provided media and then run 'yum update' once you've booted
into your new system. No need to respin install media.

Dave

> 
> --joshua