-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 April 2004 13:04, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and > > something seems missing to me. > > > > There is ample documentation on configuring the kernel, but I don't see > > the issue of the starting point addressed anywhere. It seems to be > > assumed that if you're going to compile the kernel, then you want to > > individually visit every configuration parameter and make a selection. > > There is good documentation everywhere on how to do this. > > > > If you have a working kernel, however, it seems far more logical to use > > its configuration as a starting point and make the changes relative to > > that. In SuSE, there are good instructions on getting this starting > > point, but I don't see anything like that in Debian. I *DO* see a config > > file in the /boot directory, but it is ambiguous (at best) as to whether > > this is the configuration for the running kernel. > > > > Being fair, when something is so pointedly not addressed, it usually > > means I should have known the answer without asking - but I'll admit to > > ignorance. Would someone be so kind as to point me at the place for the > > current config (probably the one in /boot, but this isn't something I > > want to take a chance on) for a starting point? > > In /boot there is a file named config-.... with .... being your running > kernel. Unpack the kernel source in /usr/src/linux and copy > /boot/config-... to /usr/src/linux/.config
That was the piece of magic I needed. I was guessing that this was the current config, but I couldn't find anything that SAID it was the current config. Thanks much! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFAcFA9jeziQOokQnARAkZzAJ0eMetsRUeRMhbr+Us7foizUJ6OvACWLlvv +BA28a39pHv+LLc0vLg5WA== =p0x1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
