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Linux 2.6.0-test5, How To Incrementally Upgrade

Posted by timothy on Monday September 8, 2003 @11:42PM from the patch-by-patch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently announced the 2.6.0-test5 Linux kernel, bringing the release of a stable 2.6 one step closer. KernelTrap quickly followed by posting a guide that walks bleeding-edge Linux fans through the process of upgrading from 2.6.0-test4 to 2.6.0-test5, using a tiny 706 KB patch."

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Obsolete make steps by Phaid · 2003-09-09 00:14 · Score: 4, Informative

Make bzImage && make modules is no longer the recommended way to do this. You should just do "make" instead, which will build bzImage and any modules you may have asked for, and do it quicker than if you specify the steps separately. See the Halloween 2.5 document for details.