Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0
Hans Nieser
h.nieser at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 7 08:10:19 GMT 2005
Doug Hardie wrote:
> 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.
I think you can still use the buildkernel and installkernel targets for
that purpose, they are still mentioned in the Makefile at least.
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