RE: .config

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

.config is generated the first time you run make config, make menuconfig,
make xconfig, etc.  basically it gets copied from
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig, but you don't need to copy it manually.

Now that doesn't guarantee that those settings are the ones that Mandrake
compiled the distribution with, but the Correct Way to Build a Distribution
says that it should be.  In Redhat and in TurboLinux, it is/was, anyway.
Well, that's true for TL >= version 1.2 anyway.  1.0 was "special" :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lindfield [mailto:dan.lindfield@example.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:36 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: .config


Hi,

My Mandrake distro has just reloaded Linux onto my laptop. I want to
recompile my Kernel with ver 2.7.4, I have done it before using
'menuconfig' but there has always been a .config file in my /linux
directory to start from. This time there is none. How can I generate a
.config file from my current setup that I know works?

Dan



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