How much is involved in moving from kernel 2.4.23 to 2.6 ??

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Caesars727 · Post by **Caesars727** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:25 am

How much work is involved, and what difficulties have you guys found in doing this??

Nu-Bee_4VR · Post by **Nu-Bee_4VR** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:14 am

Caesars727 wrote:How much work is involved, and what difficulties have you guys found in doing this??

I haven't had any problems so far...but I am not stressing things. I use mostly Opera, Pan, and a few basic proggies.

I got bootsplash working, and use genkernel 3.0

I use the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 kernel.

cristi1979 · Post by **cristi1979** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:18 am

for opengl you had to reemerge xfree

RevolutionaryIconoclast · Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:20 am

Don't forget to get module-init-tools.

azcoder · Post by **azcoder** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:22 am

Actually, I didn't need to emerge xfree for opengl after upgrading to 2.6. However, I did have to emerge the nvidia drivers.

Overall, moving to 2.6 was amazingly straight forward - a few little bumps with wireless and nvidia and that was it...

Good Luck

Post by **pjp** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:06 am

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

petrjanda · Post by **petrjanda** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:27 am

Funny thing is, ive experienced 2.4.21 more stable than 2.6.0.
Visit this thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=126362

Art Vandalay · Post by **Art Vandalay** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:28 am

what about moving from 2.6.0 to say 2.6.1.....ie can i simply use my *.config that i used in 2.6.0 for 2.6.1?

is it compatible or is that a no no? if not it's a bummer as i cant remember half the options i seletced for 2.6.0, and am too lazy to write them down!

J0rus · Post by **J0rus** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:15 am

Art Vandalay wrote:what about moving from 2.6.0 to say 2.6.1.....ie can i simply use my *.config that i used in 2.6.0 for 2.6.1?

is it compatible or is that a no no? if not it's a bummer as i cant remember half the options i seletced for 2.6.0, and am too lazy to write them down!

Simply copy the .config file from the old 2.6.0 directory into your new 2.6.1 directory, update the linux symlink, then cd into 2.6.1 directory and run "make oldconfig"
This will fill in 99% of the 2.6.1 .config with all the info from your old one, and will prompt you with any/all new features.
Once this is completed, run make menuconfig and check over everything, especially the processor type selections as somewhere between 2.6.1 and 2.6.2_rc1 the method in which this info is specified has changed...

~j0rus

How much is involved in moving from kernel 2.4.23 to 2.6 ??

How much is involved in moving from kernel 2.4.23 to 2.6 ??

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