Building new 2.4.1x kernels.

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
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> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:05 -0500
> begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:
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> > Jerry
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> > Thanks. I clicked on the link on the main page. I knew there had to be
> > tarballs of the complete kernel somewhere.
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> I find it hard to believe that anyone on this list would waste bandwidth
> to d/l 25Mb when one or two 1Mb d/l will do the same thing.  Patching is
> not hard.  If there's no SxS on patching, I'll be happy to provide one.
> It's brain dead simple and allows you to use your old .config (as in `make
> oldoconfig`) and only decide to incorporate or no the new stuff.

Patching is not always an option.  In some cases people don't do installs
that include the kernel source.  In other cases they're running an ancient
kernel version (like Caldera's 2.4.2), so patching that up to 2.4.20 would
take more time to download & apply than just grabbing the full source.

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