Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:00:33 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>I usually do a make all && make modules_install and that is it. I then >>copy it over manually though. It has worked for me since I started >>using 2.6.* kernels. >> >> > >Why not let make do the whole job and add "make install"? That installs >the kernel, makes the appropriate symlinks to the new and previous kernel >and backs up your config. > > > > Because I did that once and it made a mess. I decided I can do it better than it can. It copied a whole bunch of crap over. Maybe it was a bug or something. I dunno.
Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
