Dear Jack,
I guess you'd have to ask redhat to get an exact answer, but the defconfig
file includes more or less reasonable choices that should work for most
people as far as I can judge, however I'm always feeling more comfortable
with having the device drivers I need compiled into the kernel and throw
out stuff I definitly don't need. That's also the reason why I'm always
compiling a kernel for the specific hardware I use. And I don't have the
feeling that it's a lot of effort, if you know what Hardware you have it
should be a task of half an hour or so to go through the make
(menue)config with reading the available tips. And the resulting kernel
shouldn't be less stable as the one that redhat supplied.
Sorry, if this is not what you wanted to hear :-)
Clemens
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On 4 Jun 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
> >>>>> "Clemens" == Clemens Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Clemens> There is a file , /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig which is
> Clemens> loaded as default in case there is no .config file in your
> Clemens> ..src/linux directory, but probably you should go through the
> Clemens> cofiguration and read the help, and decide what you need. have
> Clemens> fun, Clemens
>
> But is the defconfig file you mentioned the one that was used by RH to build
> the 2.0.32 kernel provided on the CD? I know that the RH-provided kernel works
> well for me. If I need to tweak kernel settings, I want to change just those
> settings that I need to change and not affect the RH-provided settings. To do
> so, I need to run config (or menuconfig) with the prior .config file.
>
> --
> Jake Colman
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