Robert Cox wrote: > communication skills are a personal weakness, please allow me to > elaborate further... LOL
Yes, I see that. Don't top post. > my question is about menuconfig... in several howto web pages they > refer to copying the /boot/.config file from the distro currently > running to the .config file in the build directory to use as a > starting point . Then loading that .config file as and "alternate > file" and continuing the customization from there. We do not recommend that. As I said, the distro probably has everything as a module. You want to minimize modules for LFS, especially when starting out. Try 'make defconfig' followed by 'make menuconfig' > As simply stated as I can think to ask, if I load an "alternate" > config as stated above, and then make new choices in menuconfig such > as running "make localmodconfig" does this action "append" the > .config file or make a new one? It replaces the current .config. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
