On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Joseph T Watson wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a question. I want to a patch the kernal with Alans Pre
> 2.2.18pre18 patch (pre-patch-2.2.18-18.bz2), and Andreas VM Patch
> (VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7.bz2). This will be for use with the latest
> DRBD-dev cvs tree.
>
> My question. I want to keep the kernel options the same as they are now
> in Mandrake 7.2's 2.2.17-21mdk kernal. When you run "make xconfig" and
> exit and save, there is a /usr/src/linux/.config file created. If this
> file is not there, where does the config come from. Is there a default,
> or can it query the running kernel. Any way, how do I load the config
> for any of the mandrake kernels such as the linus, SMP, secure, pcmcia ,
> etc... Can I get the .config file some where?? Please fill me in if
> you can.
>
The config files for the different kernel's is in the kernel package. For
the standard kernel:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-2.2.17/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk-i586.config
seb
