On 10/28/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level > > > code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my > > > system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my > > > kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found anything in the > > > handbook suggesting how this should be approached. > > > > > > Is there a recommended procedure that someone can point me to? > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml > > Thanks. Not sure why I didn't stumble across then when searching > the documentation on the web site, but once I eventually got > emerge to install the new kernel, the messages left by emerge > led did lead me to that file: > * If you are upgrading from a previous kernel, you may be interested > * in the following documents: > * - General upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml > * - 2.4 to 2.6 migration guide: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml > > but of course I already had to have an idea on how to upgrade before seeing > that :-/. Thanks to all that offered advice... > > Also, my initial > emerge --update gentoo-sources > came back doing nothing - it just indicated that there were no packages > to update. > > I tried again with just > emerge gentoo-sources > and that went ahead and installed a new kernel source tree in /usr/src. > > So now I just need to reproduce my kernel config and then I am > ready to try going from linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10. > > I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump, > so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both > old and new kernel using two different windows so that I can be sure > to copy each of the current settings across.
make oldconfig will copy all the old configurations, and prompt you for the configurations that don't exist in the old config file. -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
