On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:22:29AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:01:42PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Are there any utilities or tricks or suggestions for porting over the > > old .config to the new? If I just copy it (/usr/src/linux-old/.config) > > over will it be intelligent with it? I would rather not re-tweak this > > kernel from the ground up if I can help it... > > I believe what you want to do is > > 1: copy over the old config (still as .config) > 2: make oldconfig > and you will get prompted only with questions for the new options
Ah ha, thanks! As it turns out, I copied .config in as .config-2.4.9 and then ran make menuconfig. It picked it up somehow and integrated the data, as verified by poking about some random menus. Afterwards, I diffed the two and it looked plausibly correct. Everything Just Worked(tm) and now I have a running kernel. Amazing. Paul
