online article: "how to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jack Bowling wrote:

> One suggestion I would offer is to *not* do a make oldconfig using a 2.4
> series .config file when doing your first 2.6 compile. So many things
> have changed in the overall structure that things may get missed.
> oldconfig is fine once you have a working 2.6 .config, though.

i also wouldn't bother with the System.map file.  never needed
it so far, why start now?

i'm sure there are other observations i can make after i read
that article more thoroughly.  mostly, i'd love to get ALSA
sound working.

rday