installing newer kernel in YDL 3.0, which .config?

Newsman yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Oct 27 13:55:00 2003


On Monday 27 October 2003 15:50, Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote:
> Newsman, that is great, it works!
> This is the kind of moment that linux is all about.
> [together with the long hours beforehand where nothing works
> but at least you learn patience and attention to detail...]
>
> > Second, I recommend using the 2.4.22 kernel source with the ben2 patch
> > (worked
> > great for me). Both can be downloaded from kernel.org.
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/benh/patch-2.4.22-ben2.gz
>
> The BenH patch makes all the difference. Without the patch,
> make modules failed. With it, everything works. [I took the
> old .config file from /boot, gave the default answer to every
> question in make oldconfig, used make xconfig to add built in
> support for hfs and hfsplus...].
>
> Thanks
> Richard

Glad it worked out.