On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Donald G. Knecht wrote: dk> Mark Hounschell wrote: dk> > dk> > fx Fraipont wrote: dk> > > dk> > > Is it possible to "extract" a .config file from a compiled kernel? dk> > > And if so, how? dk> > > dk> > > Fxf dk> > > dk> > I beleive that as long as you are using the SuSE patched dk> dk> what patches?, i was installing XFree-4.0.2 according to the README dk> and when i tried to build the new modules it said to "make cloneconfig" dk> which failed on my box with "no rule to make cloneconfig" dk> my box is a recently updated 6.4>7.0 with stock kernel and dk> sources installed via yast1...... dk> There are no actual patches, so to speak. What it is is a SuSE patched kernel, the kernel was already patched before making a package for distro. So if your getting 'no rule to make cloneconfig', then your not using the SuSE kernel source (lx_suse) package. dk> > sources (lx_suse) that you can do a make cloneconfig which should dK> > build you a .config file from your running kernel. dk> > -- dk> > Mark Hounschell dk> > dmarkh@cfl.rr.com dk> > dk> dk> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.