[ale] Kernel Upgrade question

[Charles Marcus]

Will do - am looking forward to some fun this weekend...

thanks

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Philips [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:03 PM
> To: Charles Marcus
> Cc: 'Ale (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Kernel Upgrade question
> 
> 
> I don't know that there is a list of all the things RedHat includes in
> its standard kernel. The best starting point is to download a 
> new kernel
> and begin playing. Do "make xconfig" for the config part and save your
> configs off to a file that can be reloaded. That way you can make
> progress and not kill things that are working. And I would make a boot
> floppy of your existing kernel and a separate floppy for your new
> kernel, so you always have a way to boot to a working kernel. If it's
> your first time, just keep reading the help offered in make 
> xconfig. You
> can learn a lot about what you need and don't need.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:53, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > Hmmm...
> > 
> > This is a redhat 7.2 box, and the /usr/src directory is 
> there, but empty...
> > 
> > Anyplace else these could be?  I'm basically just looking 
> for a good starting point.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Philips [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:13 PM
> > > To: Charles Marcus
> > > Cc: Ale (E-mail)
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Kernel Upgrade question
> > > 
> > > 
> > > See the file .config in /usr/src/linux.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:08, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm gonna try my hand at compiling some kernels for 
> > > practice, and was wondering...
> > > > 
> > > > Is there s way to find/list/print the flags (options) that 
> > > were chosen with the current kernel?  I mean, are these saved 
> > > somewhere in the sources, or the headers, or somwehere?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Charles
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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