Re: make config and .config file

2006-04-11 Thread Wackojacko
Adam Hardy wrote: What's the situation with the .config file when recompiling the kernel? I am running 2.6.12 and it took me a few attempts to get that config right, which I stupidly didn't document. Now I want to upgrade to 2.6.16 and I am not sure whether I can use the old .config file fro

RE: make config and .config file

2006-04-11 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
When you do "make oldconfig", it just takes all the settings from your existing kernel (or the one you used to make ".config" with) and transfers them directly to the new kernel that you want to upgrade to. If there are new options/settings available in the new kernel (and there probably will b

Re: make config

2000-03-31 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > A similar message occurs when I type: make menucofig. Because it should be "make menuconfig" (?) > I think something must be missing. It seems that you'd need the kernel-source and gcc packages. Oki

Re: make config

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:15:04PM -0500, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I a looking for a way to install the hpfs file system. I thought I would > try "make config." > > When I type "make config" I get an error message: No rule to make target > 'config'. Stop. > > A similar message occurs when I type: m

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net "J.

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net Pi

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I appreciate your getting back to me. Yes, I am in the root account. I, am not at my Linux computer, but, I can be in the directory /usr/src/linux. Yes, I installed the source of the linux kernel. Since I am new to Linux, I am not sure what details might be helpful. Brian werewolf.net Paulo Hen

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Pierre Blanchet
> I look forward to hearing from someone who can offer help on making > "make config" work. > > I followed the instructions of > http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html, "The Debian > GNU/Linux FAQ: Debian and the kernel." > > Installed: gcc, libc6-dev, bin86, binutils, and gawk.

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armstrong wrote: > Typed:make config which resulted in the following: > > make:***No rule to make target config! Stop. You need to be in the top level directory of the kernel source to run "make config". HTH, Ray -- Ob

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Are you in the root account? Are you in directory /usr/src/linux? Have you installed the source of the linux kernel? Give me more details and we can help you. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armst

Re: 'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Keathley Keathley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple > reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked > for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my > kernal? I even installed one fro

Re:'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Butch Kemper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 07:24 -0600 on 1/14/98, Chris Keathley Keathley wrote: > I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple > reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked > for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such dir

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
Qiang Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And also one more thing, you said you can get the mouse to work, there > might be a very simple solution to this. On some linux distributions, > the mouse link is not setup correctly. To check this: > "cd /dev" > "ls -l mouse" > this will tell you if you hav

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Qiang Rao
Excerpts from debian: 6-Dec-97 Re: 'make config' issues. by "Oliver Elphick"@lfix.co > >I apologise for this newbie question but what do I do to get 'make > >config' to exist? I installed Debian several days ago and just learned= > > >

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Daniel Martin
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > I installed Debian several days ago and just learned > today that the reason why my mouse doesn't work is because I need to > compile support into the kernel. Well, below I give you what I think is a full set of packages needed t

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
"Christopher R. Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian several days ago and just learned > today that the reason why my mouse doesn't work is because I need to > compile support into the kernel. When I go to /usr/src/linux and type > 'make config' I just get a bash error message s

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Christopher R. Barry" wrote: >I apologise for this newbie question but what do I do to get 'make >config' to exist? I installed Debian several days ago and just learned >today that the reason why my mouse doesn't work is because I need to >compile support into the kernel. When I go to /usr

Re: make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Corey Allert
yeah but it's architechture (sp) is that of a 486 32 bits wide and all of that stuff so compile with 486 optimizations Corey A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nsbe.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~corey PGP Key

RE: make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Kevin & Lara Olfert
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