On 2006/11/03 11:34, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > Another solution would be, once 4.1 gets out to unpack the base41.tgz, > etc41.tgz and comp41.tgz into /usr/somewhere then unpack or checkout > using cvs the 4.1 kernel sources in there as well.
Nice idea, and it works sometimes, but only when the new binaries run on your old kernel, which isn't guaranteed (see the 'reboot on a new kernel' warnings in release(8) and the 'without install media' upgrade documentation).