online article: "how to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel"

[Jack Bowling]

** Reply to message from "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> on Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:58:58 -0400 (EDT)

> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799


> for those who have been following the 2.6 kernel thread(s)
> for the last little while, there's a reference from linuxtoday.com
> to an online article:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799
> 
>   it's not strictly beta-related, but that's where most of the
> discussion has been, so i thought i'd mention it here.

One suggestion I would offer is to *not* do a make oldconfig using a 2.4 series .config file when doing your first 2.6 compile. So many things have changed in the overall structure that things may get missed. oldconfig is fine once you have a working 2.6 .config, though.

jb