[Sussex] Installing 2.6 series kernel's

[john]

Hi list,

does anyone know where I can find easy/straight forward as to how I would go 
about installing a 2.6 kernel?

Oh, and while I'm asking, which version should I try?, because I was just 
looking round kernel.org and it says the latest stable is 2.6.2 yet when I 
follow the link it tells me that it's a kernel patch i.e. 2.6.2-patch.bz2 (I 
think?). Or when I looked at the UK mirror, there's just this massive list of 
stuff, some of which seems to be kernel versions and some seem to be patches?

regards

John D.