2. When building a kernel, do you have to build it from scratch?
Unfortunately *deeply sighing!* true. I would be delighted if it were not so.
Everytime you compile a kernel you are builiding an entirely 'new' one! The file in /usr/src/linux called '.config' contains the settings that have been made when the kernel configuration program was last run.
And directly after the installation of Tussinella 6.0 or above that ..config file is empty/not existing. Is that right?
No. Compiling shouldn't delete the .config file that was used.
Jerry Kreps schrieb: true.
You must be doing a "make distclean', which would delete the .config file and about everything else. what i actually meant was that the original .config which fits the default kernel which you chose is NOT installed. that and more "missed" shots on SUSE are truely annoying to a logical thinking man.
the only thing i truely DISlike on many distros (even suse) is the misorder in things like directory arrangement. now the file xxx is here, some versions later it is somewhere completely else. also, the structure of documentation is very disgusting, as you can hardly keep an overview on what - in fact - you are looking after... you often run away from topic and get lost in thousands of lines which describe the highly technical content instead of short step-by-step instructions.
That's why I like the 'locate' command, and why 'updatedb' is run by cron every night! ;)
not enuff. see below. as I said:
next, which i am missing, is some index-help-base in which you can enter a search word for instance "squid" and get a 2,3 line short description of what it is and a link to the concerned howto, minihowto and doc files.
is there anyrthing like that (before i am again inventing wheels...) or am i just blind and too pragmatically minded?
You mean 'man'? Or 'info'? jlk man and info is by far not structured enuff. also, i want all that (locate, man, info, howto and so forth) started with ONE menu command
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