smooth kernel upgrade here

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Just a note reporting good news for a change. I upgraded my 2.6.12 
kernel yesterday to a 2.6.14.4 kernel without incident. Furthermore, it 
compiled successfully with GCC 4.0. I know this is not quite cutting 
edge, but it is as close as I want to get to it right now.

Since my Debian conversion a few months ago I have become fairly 
comfortable with relying on package management tools, except for kernel 
compilation, which I have not had the nerve to try yet. So this upgrade 
was done the old way, fetching a source archive from www.kernel.org, 
patching speakup into it from CVS, then doing a "make oldconfig" using 
my (what else?) old config, then doing a "make", a "make 
modules_install", a "make install" which included running lilo, and a 
reboot. Up it came with everything intact, including software speech. 

Once again my thanks to Kirk and all his helpers for making Linux not 
only tractable, but enjoyable too. What better stocking gift could one 
want?

Chuck

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