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 kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found anything in the 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. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
