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Hello, Which is the fastest way to retreive the kernel options settings ( for compiling )from a the rpm kernel SuSE 2.2.14 in my suse 6.4 ( standard installation with no kernel sources i suppose since I cann't do the make xconfig command.). Is it autoconfig.h ? If ok, how can I use those options for installing and compiling a new kernel 2.2.17 whithout retyping all those parameters in the xconfig menus. I must say that more then half of those are just chinese for me. I suppose as well that suse has some particular options corresponding to her distribution. So my bother is to use those 2.2.14 parameters in a 2.2.17 kernel. In that way I hope to have my system still running. Then I could slowly intoduce some option settings in the new 2.2.17 version. Any one any idea please. Thanks a lot filip -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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Hello filip, on Wednesday, September 06, 2000 at 21:48:17 +0200, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
Which is the fastest way to retreive the kernel options settings ( for compiling )from a the rpm kernel SuSE 2.2.14 in my suse 6.4 ( standard installation with no kernel sources i suppose since I cann't do the make xconfig command.). Is it autoconfig.h ?
If ok, how can I use those options for installing and compiling a new kernel 2.2.17 whithout retyping all those parameters in the xconfig menus. I must say that more then half of those are just chinese for me. I suppose as well that suse has some particular options corresponding to her distribution.
So my bother is to use those 2.2.14 parameters in a 2.2.17 kernel. In that way I hope to have my system still running. Then I could slowly intoduce some option settings in the new 2.2.17 version.
Any one any idea please. Thanks a lot filip
Normally, the config settings of the kernel are located in a file named .config in the root of the kernel tree. Unfortunately, I don't know if this file is included in the SuSE kernel sources package. Regads... -- Jean-François Bocquet <tns01@free.fr> == Error is not forever, hope for right+ |== ICQ: 69968770 ===================== Darkness is not the opposite of light| |== http://tns01.free.fr ========== -But only absence- day will follow night.| +-- Linux User #177410 --------------------------------------------*-- Lowell+ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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Hello,
Which is the fastest way to retreive the kernel options settings ( for compiling )from a the rpm kernel SuSE 2.2.14 in my suse 6.4 ( standard installation with no kernel sources i suppose since I cann't do the make xconfig command.). Is it autoconfig.h ?
If ok, how can I use those options for installing and compiling a new kernel 2.2.17 whithout retyping all those parameters in the xconfig menus. I must say that more then half of those are just chinese for me. I suppose as well that suse has some particular options corresponding to her distribution.
So my bother is to use those 2.2.14 parameters in a 2.2.17 kernel. In that way I hope to have my system still running. Then I could slowly intoduce some option settings in the new 2.2.17 version.
cd usr/src/linux type make cloneconfig this will crate the config file you are looking make your changes then voola compile it -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net ----------------------------------- 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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* Togan Muftuoglu (toganm@turk.net) [20000907 00:11]:
cd usr/src/linux
type make cloneconfig
this will crate the config file you are looking make your changes then voola compile it
Beware! There's a bug in the kernel shipped with 6.4 that can cause it to completely lock up the machine. The problem was, that if your config exceeds the size of a memory page (4K), as our default config does, it would overwrite the following memory. This was only discovered much later and is fixed in the kernel shipped with 7.0. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany #define NINODE 50 /* number of in core inodes */ #define NPROC 30 /* max number of processes */ -- Version 7 UNIX for PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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Philipp Thomas started typing into the keyboard and wrote:
* Togan Muftuoglu (toganm@turk.net) [20000907 00:11]:
cd usr/src/linux
type make cloneconfig
this will crate the config file you are looking make your changes then voola compile it
Beware! There's a bug in the kernel shipped with 6.4 that can cause it to completely lock up the machine. The problem was, that if your config exceeds the size of a memory page (4K), as our default config does, it would overwrite the following memory. This was only discovered much later and is fixed in the kernel shipped with 7.0.
Thanks for the info, however two questions, 1) Does kernel source rpm on the ftp for 6.4 update includes this fix ? 2) Probably I missed the warning info regarding this or was not there one ? -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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