Re: [Sheflug] Upgrading Kernel

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

>>>>> "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.

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

I'd say much the same thing - I don't think upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4
would go too smoothly with a copied .config.

After all, you'll get to marvel in awe at those new at shiney options
in 2.4.x :-)

Baz.

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