Re: [Sheflug] Upgrading Kernel

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Darrell Blake wrote:
    >> I am wanting to upgrade my kernel to 2.4 and am wondering if
    >> there is any way I can use my current Kernel configuration as a
    >> template so that I don't have to set absolutely everything up
    >> again.

    Will> Copy the file ".config" in the root of your old kernel
    Will> source tree into the new source tree. Then "make oldconfig"
    Will> in the new source tree.

I got better results 2.2.18->2.4.0-pre12 (the last 2.4 I've touched)
with make menuconfig; oldconfig would have had lots of questions, all
of which I wanted to answer "no" to, and it wouldn't have asked a
couple of questions I wanted to change my answer to.


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