I have been compiling the 2.6.14 kernel these days with help of
Anthony. Here are the main steps:
1. cp /boot/config* kernel-source-dir/.config
follow the step of /usr/share/doc/kernel-pakage/readme.gz
2. make menuconfig(now u have to set it according to ur machine)
3. fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version "-x10plus" --revision="1" kernel_image
(u can make-kpkg clean first if u have already compiled once before, and the "x10plus" is my laptop)
4. then a deb file will generated in the ../ directory
dpkg -i *.deb
That's all.