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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:19:57 -0500 >"David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:05 -0500 >> begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: >> > >> > 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 >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
