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From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:07 PM
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Anton Graham wrote:
Submitted 07-Aug-00 by Scott Kindley:
Is there a way of 'dumping' my current kernel's existing
menuconfig/xconfig setup to a file that can be read into the
menuconfig/xconfig for the new kernel? In other words, can I make my
current kernel setup the default?
in the /usr/src/linux-2.2.whatever that came with your mandrake they
should have a file called something like deafultconfig -- whatever, it
doesn't matter. I always do the config in X and then out to terminal
for the complle. Anyway, from a terminal window in that directory, type
"make xconfig"
However, I've never done a kernel upgrade/compile before.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
Is there a way of 'dumping' my current kernel's existing
menuconfig/xconfig setup to a file that can be read into the
menuconfig/xconfig for the new kernel? In other words, can I make
I don't think make oldconfig is what this person is after.
From: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
`make oldconfig' will attempt to configure the kernel from an old
configuration file; it will run through the `make config' process
for you. If you haven't ever compiled a kernel
Submitted 07-Aug-00 by Scott Kindley:
Is there a way of 'dumping' my current kernel's existing
menuconfig/xconfig setup to a file that can be read into the
menuconfig/xconfig for the new kernel? In other words, can I make my
current kernel setup the default?
I missed the original post.
