if you download/installed the Mandrake kernel source
rpm, the .config file used to build that kernel is
there. its quite interesting to know what is
enabled/disabled by default by MDK.
but if you download the kernel source from kernel.org,
you will have to build .config yourself... i usually
keep a copy of the .config file from my last stable
kernel. when i want to upgrade to a new kernel
version, i run:
make oldconfig
which only prompts me for new options asked in the new
kernel. i dont have to go thru that long long long
process of answer Y,N and m everytime. =)
dianne
--- "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't kept up with the recent developments, but
> in the old days,
> one would only need the .config file that is used to
> make the kernel
> that is shipped with the distribution.
>
> Is this available somewhere?
>
> -sen
>
> pablito writes:
> > is there some program that compiles the kernel
> source and produces the
> > vmlinuz and initrd files that the regular kernel
> has? I've followed the
> > directions in the readme file and end up with a
> bzImage file. There are
> > instructions for making an initrd file from
> scratch but surely there must be
> > some script file somewhere that does that.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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