On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:58:12AM -0700, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > I normally have to recompile my kernel a number of times. > > Obviously , the .config file in /usr/src/linux gets overwritten and I > lose my old .config file. !? It should only be overwritten if you change it, or do a "make mrproper". A normal kernel compile (make dep && make bzImage modules ... etc) AFAIK only reads from it. > I know I can save it by a unique name but is there a command/utility > which I could use to know the configuration of the current running > kernel ? If you use make-kpkg (in the kernel-package package) to create kernel-image-* debs, then you *should* have /boot/config-* files that match the kernels in /boot/vmlinuz-*. I have to admit to being biased towards make-kpkg :-) If you installed the kernel "by hand", then you're on your own. Hopefully you made a copy of the .config when you installed the kernel :-) -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! -- Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan
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