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engelsman
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: lunar update - modules only? |
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In 'man lfirsttime' it recommends doing a 'lunar update' to ensure that everything installed from the ISO is brought up to date. Now that I've spent a few late nights to install a 2.6 kernel and additional hardware drivers, added xfce4, etc. You can read about my exploits under my Talk page. I'd rather not have to repeat it all.
When I run 'lunar update' next time, what happens to the kernels that I've configured and built? Will it also build a new kernel using the running kernel configuration? If yes, does it also install it ready for the next boot?
I'd rather ask now than try it and screw it up and spend a week rebuilding  |
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Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: next time... |
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| Quote: | | what happens to the kernels that I've configured and built? |
The configuration files of those (the .config ones) should automatically be detected by a new kernel compile and reused - thus giving you a very easy way of upgrading kernels - you don't need to edit the configuration again everytime.
It's wise to actually double-check this tho, especially when new drivers become available or old ones removed from the kernel.
Also, the requirement for this is that you used 'lin linux-2.x-something' and didn't install a kernel yourself - manually extracted and configured kernels will not get their configuration saved/reused.
hint: a copy of the config should end up in |
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