I had a first go at this last night-you could call it a practise on
linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2. I got as far as make xconfig. Its not as frightening
as I thought it would be but has raised some new questions...
First I could find no mention of USB support in the xconfig window. From
the USB pages I've found on the web I assumed it would have its own section
(button). There is a documentation section in the documentation sub
directories of the . The only thing I could think it it could be down to
(after I shut the machine down last night) was that before running oldconfig
for the second time I copied my old .config file to the new kernel source
directory since the first time I ran it I realised (or thought) it was
refering to my new kernel source. I won't bother with oldconfig again.
The next question is I could only seem to select parallel printer support as
a module and not complile it into my new kernel. I don't think in my
existing setup lp is a module. This is after selecting parallel support as
a module -in my existing setup this latter definitely is.
Also should I compile in kmod this was deaulting to to no. In my existing
RH6.0 system is kmod used and how do I find out. If I use this to load
modules as required do I have to do any more configeration and if so what.
Ta. NH.
> From: Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:22:23 -0500 (EST)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0
>
> Actually, I think the README does mention oldconfig...it also mentions
> plain old "config"...config works well, if you don't mind answering Y/N/M
> all over the place...but if you don't have X running, and the system
> doesn't recognize that you have ncurses (even though the one I'm using
> does), config is the way to go.
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
>>
>>> Cheers Mikkel,
>>> I wondered whether the path may not be correct to run make. One last
>>> question - do I run make oldconfig first then one of the others menuconfig
>>> xconfig or is oldconfig equivalent to these? I've read my "running Linux"
>>> book and my "linux in easy steps" and the kernel howto and non of them
>>> mention oldconfig at all. Cheers NH.
>>>
>> Run "make oldconfig" first. Then run your choice of "make menuconfig"
>> or "make xconfig". I am not sure why the documention doesn't mention
>> oldconfig. I have found it handy when I don't have the ".config" file
>> for the current kernel. It gives you a base to start from when
>> selecting what you want in your new kernel.
>>
>> Mikkel
>>
>
>
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