Brilliant I'm going to burn the CD later and have a try tonight. The one
thing that worries me is the modules though hopefully using oldconfig will
take care of all the exisiting ones. Ta. NH.
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:15:50 -0600 (CST)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
>
>> Cheers Mikkel,
>> I wondered whether the path may not be correct to run make. One last
>> question - do I run make oldconfig first then one of the others menuconfig
>> xconfig or is oldconfig equivalent to these? I've read my "running Linux"
>> book and my "linux in easy steps" and the kernel howto and non of them
>> mention oldconfig at all. Cheers NH.
>>
> Run "make oldconfig" first. Then run your choice of "make menuconfig"
> or "make xconfig". I am not sure why the documention doesn't mention
> oldconfig. I have found it handy when I don't have the ".config" file
> for the current kernel. It gives you a base to start from when
> selecting what you want in your new kernel.
>
> Mikkel
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