On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:18:13PM -0500, 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? I haven't needed to do this for a while (recompile) but if I recall you can move that file in /boot to a file called .config in /usr/src/kernel-src or where ever the root of your kernel source tree is. If it isn't .config I'm 99% sure it's another hidden dot-file in the same place.
Good luck.
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