Building new 2.4.1x kernels.

[kbb0927@cs.com]

I think I may have hosed my old .config file although I did copy it to
/home/keith/linux-2.4.20 where I had untarred the kernel tarball.

Keith B.

Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

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