Who can tell me the diffrence between the two files?
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Well where have you found those files.One of them I believe is a symlink and the other the actual kernel.
The command which you can find out what is what is
file -L <filename>
(or of course the "standard one" ls -lhR)
good luck.
vmlinuz is usually the compressed form of the kernel. 'file' will say, as rch says. Symlinks would generally be 'vmlinuz' to 'vmlinuz-2.4.20.8' rather than what you've got.
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