Building my kernel

Hello again,

Once more, I have questions about the installation instructions for my 
Alpha XL 366.

In Code Listing 11 on this page 
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-alpha.xml?part=1&chap=7), 
it says that after the kernel finishes compiling, to execute this command :

cp arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz /boot/


First of all, the compiled kernel is not in the arch/alpha/boot 
subdirectory, it's in the current directory (/usr/src/linux). Second, it 
isn't vmlinux.gz but vmlinux .

Should I gzip it?

I seem to remember that back in the day, we did "make vmlinuz" which 
gave an already gzipped kernel, but now, there is no target named 
"vmlinuz" in the Makefile...

Sorry to ask all these little questions, but I just want to be sure, and 
since there are differences between the instructions and what really 
happens, I don't know if the instructions will give me a working system 
in the end... So I prefer to ask here.

Thanks,

J-S

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