Re: moving from amd to p3?

["Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>]

I didn't know that make oldconfig would recognize new
options and prompt you for them. I guess that's because
I don't usually use oldconfig. Since having the right config
is the most important part of the kernel build, I always do
it from scratch, with only the new source tree and nothing
old in there. Perhaps I'm a glutton for punishment. hehe.

But for those who haven't compiled kernel, it's really 
not that hard. Like most things, there's only one way to
learn, by screwing up a few times and making kernels
that won't boot, and learning how to recover from that,
learning by trial and error what some of those drivers 
are and are not. I also highly recommend doing the 
linuxfromscratch thing if you have the time and patience.
It's quite satisfying to build the entire mess from source
and gives you a much better understanding of the 
fundamentals of linux.
 
When I first started using linux I had this constant fear
of  missing stuff, if I didn't have everything installed then
I wouldn't be able to build or use xyz software later. 
Now I'm the opposite, I always want a minimal system,
only what I need and nothing more. Some of these 
distros have 6GB of software on the disks. Insane.

  -- Doug