Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1123 mails)

[Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((Ted Harding))]

On 17-Jun-98 Steven Udell wrote:
> Marc Bouron wrote:
>> Having now been playing with my newly-installed SuSE 5.2 for a while,
>> I'd like to build my own kernel.  Setting the configuration options
>> is one thing, but I'd like to know what they're set to currently: i.e.
>> what does my current (off the CD) kernel look like.  Is there any way
>> to tell?  Ideally I'd like to be able to build a kernel which is just
>> like my current one, but with a couple of things added (and perhaps
>> a couple of things taken away).
>>
>> Any hints will be gratefully received.
> 
> Well, as a start, take down all the hardware your system has
> on a piece of paper.  So you can have a check list to mark as
> you are doing the config file of the kernel.
[and so on]

However helpful Steven's reply may be about the general procedure for compiling
a kernel, it does NOT answer Marc Bouron's question at all.

This is the same question I asked several weeks ago, without receiving any
reply, not even from the S.u.S.E. team.

Namely, to put is in its simplest terms: You install S.u.S.E., and a kernel
goes in as part of the installation. QUESTION: What are the configuration
settings under which this kernel was compiled? (Or, where may they be found?).

Similar if you upgrade -- a new kernel goes in; what are its config data?

(And, by the way, it seems to me that this kernel is copied from the boot
floppy. This I discovered having found that upgrading, 5.0->5.1, installed the
2.0.32 kernel sources off the CD, while the new kernel that went in was 2.0.33;
and that is what I found on the floppy, despite the fact that the label on
S.u.S.E.'s floppy said 2.0.32).

As well as Marc, I really would like to know the answer to this question!

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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Date: 17-Jun-98                                       Time: 13:09:44
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