Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Thank you!!! On 5/12/13, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On 5/11/2013 20:39, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. Thanks in Advance, Nick. On 5/12/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you!!! On 5/12/13,

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 10:56:50 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. That's not a huge step, but you'll have a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
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Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:39:02PM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote Hello Everyone, Saw examples for genkern, but we build our own kernels. After copying the files over we like to run make and make modules_install on the new machine. Since the new machine will probably have a newer kernel, I

[gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-11 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact modules etc copied over. Saw examples for genkern, but we build our own kernels. After copying the files over we

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-11 Thread staticsafe
On 5/11/2013 20:39, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact modules etc copied over. Saw examples for genkern, but we build our