Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Mon Nov 7 07:45:01 GMT 2005


On Nov 6, 2005, at 22:15, Hans Nieser wrote:

> Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I am in the midst of upgrading via source from 5.3 to 6.0.  All  
>> is  going fine, but the instructions in UPDATING do not include a  
>> make  installkernel command.  I know that needs to be done  
>> somewhere.  I  suspect between the buildkernel and the reboot.
>
> I think it says "make kernel ...", which apparently does both

I see that now.  But, then how do you build multiple kernels?  I  
maintain all source on one system and build all the kernels there.  I  
don't want to install them as they won't work.  Also, I don't want to  
build them on the production machines, just install them.


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