On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > I wanted to recompile the Kernel and leave all the default settings which > were used to produce the stock hamm 2.0.34 kernel in. There are some options > which I don't use, some which aren't in there and a recompile for my CPU which > is not a 386 wouldn't hurt either I thought. > > So I installed the kernel source tree, made a backup copy of .config and did a > make mrproper. Then when I wanted to set the options I put the saved .config > file back in place and tried to load it. This never worked, neither in make > menuconfig nor in make xconfig. > > Can anybody tell me what is going on and how I can setup the kernel with the > "stock hamm kernel" settings right in place?
Two things. 1) install the kernel-package package and learn to use make-kpkg 2) if you install the kernel-image-2.0.34 package a copy of the .config file (supposedly) used to generate the kernel ends up in /boot (Note that this file is _not_ there after a base install.) Luck, -- your man pann