Sometime on Jul 14, Chrisil assembled some asciibets to say:
Now, for some reason I want to remove my ext2 partition. I will be reinstalling RH later. So, in order to use the kernel I had compiled earlier, which files, other than the kernel image, do I need to backup. The modules/2.4.6 directory? Also, System.map-2.4.6 maybe?
You got that right. You'd probably also want to keep your kernel headers (kernel.h, and /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm), although you can always get this from your sources.
Philip