Steve Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a question that should affect a lot of people. Suppose I want
> to recompile the kernel, 2.4.3-xxx, that came with Mandrake 8.0.
> Suppose I just want to change ONE item, enabled, disable, load as
> module.
>
> When I "make config" on the supplied kernel, this configuration file
> called up does NOT seem to be the one MandrakeSoft used to prepare the
> supplied kernel. It appears to be a generic configuration file from
> the Linux kernel team. So I have to go through 1,000 questions, only
> half of which I understand.
>
> Is there a Mandrake configuration file hiding somewhere? Or, if I
> recompile from this existing configuration file and change only ONE
> default, will this 99.999% compile back to the Mandrake kernel? Is
> there a MANDRAKE config file I can download?
I've been told (and I think I've done it ;-) that:
make oldconfig
will get you the old config into your shiny new config file so you
can then do the old 'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' (or even
'make config' ;-) and have the 'correct' base config (your old one).
rc
(you may want to consider using menuconfig (for text-based but really
nice) or xconfig (for x-based and also really nice ;-) instead of just
plain old config (which I found to be a real pain, since you cannot
skip anything, and you cannot go back, as I recall)
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