On Monday 11 March 2002 09:30 pm, you wrote: > > What I'm getting at is that it is easy on the first recompile to omit > things that are needed especially when they are not there by default (like > PPP) and it would be most helpful to just be able to have that .config file > and run 'make oldconfig' or 'make menuconfig' and add or subtract from a > known entitiy. > > Anita
I have not been following this thread as I have my own problems with KDE compiles but! Most distros save a file in /boot that is the config file for the installed default kernel. Having said that Caldera never has but there used to be a file somewhere in /usr/src/linux that no longer seesm to exist. But all is not lost for if you go to /usr/src/linux-2.4.x that is the default installed kernel; logged in root and in a terminal call xconfig (nothing else), the config as called is usually the default config, which you can save to a file. I always do this as 'save to', and name them 2.4.xcfg, you can relaod after this alter the config and save it as 2.4.x-1cfg, so you can have differing configs to recall and recompile on. As I said it used to work, so its worth trying. I just did a test on 3.1.1 default of 2.4.13 and I am running 17, it came up with waht I would expect of a default kernel with 90% selected. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
