You might try copying your old .config file over and then 'make oldconfig'
which should preserve your choices from before and add the new options.
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What exactly is wrong with 2.2.15 anyway, I was just about to upgrade mine?
> Bye the way, (I am - I suppose a newbie) I only have 1 and a half years of
> LINUX experience.
>
> When upgrading the kernel from a previous version as opposed to compiling
> normally what steps have to be done to prevent it from failing outright?
>
> Is this correct and am I missing anything.
> After decompressing and copying to /usr/src/linux
>
> 1. make mrproper
> 2. make menuconfig
> 2. make dep clean bzImage
> 3. make modules
> 4. make modules_install
> 5. cp System.map /boot
> 6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage
>
> Am I missing anything? I have just gotten my SAMBA server to work correctly
> with no issues and don't feel like reconfiguring all.
>
> As I said, I'm a newbie.
>
> Regards
> Conor.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@mail.snowman.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 3:08 PM
> To: Ben McCann
> Cc: Alan Cox; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16pre6
>
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Ben McCann wrote:
>
> > What are the "good reasons" to release 2.2.16 RSN?
>
> 2.2.15 ain't the best, from what I understand.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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