On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:38:09PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: | Hi all, | | Whenever I have compiled a kernel - twice so far on Debian, many times | on Slackware - I've struck this issue. | | There are several features of a kernel that are expected to be | configured a particular way for a particular distribution. | | For example, proc fs support, UNIX98 ptys or whatever they're called, | whether parallel printer support should be a module or not. | | Does Debian (or any distro for that matter) have documents on this? Is | the config file in the kernel source package preconfigured with these | defaults?
The kernel-image packages for Debian include the config file used to build them as /boot/config-<version>. | Or do I just have to do lots of research myself before I start to make | sure I get a kernel that will function properly with my system? You have to do that anyways if you are going to know which features you do and don't want. Building a kernel and trying it out is a part of that research. Nothing beats experience :-). -D