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How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the practice-makes-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a good computer project for the long labor-day weekend. KernelTrap has posted a howto detailing eight steps to upgrade your GNU/Linux OS from the 2.4 stable kernel to the 2.6.0-test development kernel. Complete with screen shots, the end result sounds to be well worth the effort." Since chances are most people will be upgrading anyway once 2.6 is deemed release-worthy, it's always worth learning the upgrade procedure well.

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  1. Make xconfig fails by tcoady · · Score: 0, Redundant

    [root@phoebe linux-2.6.0-test3]# make mrproper
    CLEAN scripts/kconfig
    CLEAN scripts
    RM $(CLEAN_FILES)
    Making mrproper in the srctree
    RM $(MRPROPER_DIRS) + $(MRPROPER_FILES)
    [root@phoebe linux-2.6.0-test3]# make xconfig
    HOSTCC scripts/fixdep
    HOSTCC scripts/split-include
    HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
    HOSTCC scripts/docproc
    HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
    CC scripts/empty.o
    HOSTCC scripts/mk_elfconfig
    MKELF scripts/elfconfig.h
    HOSTCC scripts/file2alias.o
    HOSTCC scripts/modpost.o
    HOSTLD scripts/modpost
    HOSTCC scripts/pnmtologo
    SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h
    HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
    sed scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/'
    HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
    HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o /usr/lib/qt-3.1/bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc
    HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found
    make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127
    make: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 2