I have downloaded the linux version 2.4.28 from the kernel.org, pl tell me the steps how to install it.

You only downloaded the kernel?
Why did you took the old kernel?
latest is 2.6.

Do you have a running linux distribution?

You need to compile the kernel
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/

Or do you want to build linux from scratch?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

I have been using the digium card thats why. That is old one.

Can you please explain what you want to do?
Do you have a running linux distribution and want to install a new kernel?
If yes, you need to compile the kernel.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compil...kernel-26.html

My hard disk get crashed, I faced problem in boot up from the hard disk, So I planned to install the kernel in another hard disk and make use of it.

Don't you mean you ant to install a linux distribution like debian, suse, ubuntu ... ?

Thanks! I will compile the kernel and tell the status.

My partition is contains only the lost+found file and this tar file linux-2.4.28.tar.bz2 how to install the kernel.

Do you have a distro installed?
You need some packages to compile the kernel.(gcc etc)
Why don't you use a cd from a distribution to install on the HD, and then compile the old kernel,
since you want to use the old kernel.

u downloaded a old kernel

2.4 kernel is used is only using in embedded application

any way there is nothing like to install the kernel u have to compile it

some set of easy steps r there u can search on forword link.

http://www.sysdesign.ca/guides/linux_kernel.html

I tried to install the linux 2.4.28 using the apt-get command as

I unpacked the source by,tar -zxvf linux-2.4.28.tar.gz

Then I execute the following command

apt-get install linux-2.4.28 but I get the following error message.

linux-2.4.28 package not found

This means the kernel isn't avaiable anymore in the repo's. (to old)
You need to compile the kernel by hand.
Take a look at the links I gave you earlier.
BTW, you can not use apt-get to install a tar file.

I used the link what you send to me. But when I do the "make bzImage" I got the error messages as follows,

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -fno-unit-at-a-time -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
In file included from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/kernel.h:15,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/wait.h:13,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/fs.h:12,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
from init/main.c:15:
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/asm/byteorder.h:14: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/asm/byteorder.h:30: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:11,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/asm/byteorder.h:65,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/kernel.h:15,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/wait.h:13,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/fs.h:12,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
from init/main.c:15:
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:160: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:173: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:186: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:200: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/list.h:6,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/wait.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/fs.h:12,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
from init/main.c:15:
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/asm/processor.h:75: error: array type has incomplete element type
In file included from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/fs.h:322,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
from init/main.c:15:
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:26: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:27: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8[6]'
In file included from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp_mount.h:12,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h:12,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/fs.h:732,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/capability.h:17,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/sched.h:9,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
from init/main.c:15:
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:24: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:25: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:26: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:27: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:28: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:29: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8[]'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:37: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:38: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:39: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:40: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:41: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:42: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:43: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8[]'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:137: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:138: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8[256]'
/media/sda3/usr/src/linux-2.4.28/include/linux/ncp.h:174: warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type '__u8'
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

My hard disk is not getting bootup, I need to recompile my kernel version 2.4.28, How can I do it? any help please.