On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, S. Cowles wrote: > > I am a kernel newbie and am looking for some guidance on common kernel > upgrade practices. Right now, I run 7.3 with the 2.4.18-5 kernel, but > would like to install the 2.4.19 kernel just released. I've collected > the howto's for kernel compiles (and the grub howto), but am looking for > a different kind of information than they offer. > > I want to keep as much of the redhat config from 2.4.18-5 as possible, > and just tweak a few things. How do people normally do something like > this? Is it as simple as copying the 2.4.18-5 config file to the 2.4.19 > sources and proceeding from there? Am I missing something important?
hang on to your previous .config file, load the new kernel source, replace the .config file and run # make oldconfig this tries to automatically configure the newer kernel with as much of the previous config as it can, and will only ask about options that aren't represented in the old .config. rday -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
