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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:29:00
Message-Id: 48996ED4.5090506@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig by James
1 on 08/06/2008 04:58 AM James wrote the following:
2 > Dale <dalek1967 <at> bellsouth.net> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >
6 > Well, the reason I asked is for clarity.
7 > I found this gentoo doc, which seems a little dated:
8 >
9 >
10 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/
11 > HOWTO_Detailed_Kernel_Configuration
12 >
13 >
14 > So what I gleen is that you run on
15 > a kernel, say version linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r8
16 >
17 > You down load newer sources, say version
18 > linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
19 >
20 > cd /usr/src
21 >
22 > rm linux
23 >
24 > ln -sf /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 linux
25 >
26 >
27 cd linux
28 > make oldconfig
29 > make menuconfig
30 >