Building new 2.4.1x kernels.

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:19:57 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> 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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> > 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, ...

My sxs on patching is still on the site.

> 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.
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Just a side note, my experience with 'make oldconfig' has been less than
stellar.  I found out the hard way that 'make oldconfig' would change
kernel options silently (sometimes built-in to modules, as I remember),
so I only use 'make oldconfig' to point out changes.   After getting
burnt once, I now always save my existing config, use 'make menuconfig',
load the old version, make changes, save my changes in the old place,
then save the .config.

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Collions Richey - Denver Area
Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system