How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?

[Darren Pilgrim]

> From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:doublef at tele-kom.ru] 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700,
>  Darren Pilgrim probably wrote:
> > What do I need to us to accomplish the above?
> 
> man release.

Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create
the distributions and ISOs with what's already built?