Re: Rebuilding Kernel
On Mar 13, Andrei Ivanov (scorpio@arshes.dyndns.org) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I need to rebuild the kernel. My
> > system does not have the
> > "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14/.config"
> > file. How do you create that file
> > based on your current kernel?.
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > -shane
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig OR
> make xconfig
>
Why isn't the config file corresponding to the kernel that comes with
the distribution provided? The first time I had to recompile a
kernel, it was rather daunting to have to figure out all of the
various options; it would have been much easier if I could have known
I was just making an incremental change to the current kernel.
--
Neil L. Roeth
neil@occamsrazor.net
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