Joe Giles said: > List, > > I was wondering. I want to play with building my own Kernel. My question > is this. > > Can I download a Kernel from the source tree at kernel.org, say 2.5.50 > (Just released) and use the Red Hat config file from an RPM installed > kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.8.0/configs) and compile it? Would this > work say if I don't make any changes to the kernel, but load those config > settings, build and install?
it may be possible by running 'make oldconfig' before compiling but I wouldn't reccomend it. distros like redhat use a lot of patches to the kernel I would reccomend going over the kernel config to be sure it has everything you need before compiling it. I'm paranoid for some reason so I never use oldconfig, always configure from scratch, only takes a couple minutes.. oldconfig may only work between minor kernel revs(2.4.x -> 2.4.y), haven't heard anyone trying to do it between major revs. the configuration system I think changed in a recent 2.5.x kernel which may introduce more complications as well. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
