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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:43:22
Message-Id: 200510120835.45843.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel by Mark
1 Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2005 04:18 schrieb ext Mark:
2
3 > Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make
4 > menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go
5 > through all the settings again? Is that what saving .config was for? If
6 > so, how do I fit that in to the steps of upgrading, since this article
7 > doesn't include it...http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
8
9 1) make menuconfig has options to load and save kernel config files. I
10 usually store mine in /root/kernel-<VERSION>.config for later reuse.
11
12 2) 2.6 kernels have an option to offer their config file
13 via /proc/config(.gz)
14
15 HTH...
16
17 Dirk
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