Re: Kernel recompiling w/o losing the defaults
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> I wanted to recompile the Kernel and leave all the default settings which
> were used to produce the stock hamm 2.0.34 kernel in. There are some options
> which I don't use, some which aren't in there and a recompile for my CPU which
> is not a 386 wouldn't hurt either I thought.
>
> So I installed the kernel source tree, made a backup copy of .config and did a
> make mrproper. Then when I wanted to set the options I put the saved .config
> file back in place and tried to load it. This never worked, neither in make
> menuconfig nor in make xconfig.
>
> Can anybody tell me what is going on and how I can setup the kernel with the
> "stock hamm kernel" settings right in place?
Two things.
1) install the kernel-package package and learn to use make-kpkg
2) if you install the kernel-image-2.0.34 package a copy of the .config
file (supposedly) used to generate the kernel ends up in /boot
(Note that this file is _not_ there after a base install.)
Luck,
--
your man pann
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