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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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