Hi,

I've tried compiling a kernel for myself, but I got discouraged because
many of the options of the kernel config confused me. the help is nice,
but 2.4's menuconfig seems to have some bugs, too, so it's quite
difficult for me.
To have the kernel config file for the bare.i kernel that ships with
Slack 10 would help me a lot, I reckon. Is there somewhere I could get
it, or is it even provided with the kernel sources on the CD (I couldn't
distinguish it by looking at it...)?

regards,
~Mik

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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Mario Berger wrote:
> To have the kernel config file for the bare.i kernel that ships with
> Slack 10 would help me a lot, I reckon. Is there somewhere I could get
> it, or is it even provided with the kernel sources on the CD (I couldn't
> distinguish it by looking at it...)?


on your cdrom, ./kernels/bare.i/config
copy it to .config in your work area, of course, before mucking with it.
it the kernel you are compiling is a later version than
the one on your cdrom, be sure to do 'make oldconfig' before
'make dep bzImage'

newbies should never 'make config', very confusing.
use 'make menuconfig' to reconfigure an existing .config file.
then do the usual make dep bzImage dance.





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Mario Berger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried compiling a kernel for myself, but I got discouraged because
> many of the options of the kernel config confused me. the help is nice,
> but 2.4's menuconfig seems to have some bugs, too, so it's quite
> difficult for me.
> To have the kernel config file for the bare.i kernel that ships with
> Slack 10 would help me a lot, I reckon. Is there somewhere I could get
> it, or is it even provided with the kernel sources on the CD (I couldn't
> distinguish it by looking at it...)?
>
Your current kernel's .config should be in /boot/config-something. Just copy
that to .config.

Mario Berger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried compiling a kernel for myself, but I got discouraged because
> many of the options of the kernel config confused me. the help is nice,
> but 2.4's menuconfig seems to have some bugs, too, so it's quite
> difficult for me.
> To have the kernel config file for the bare.i kernel that ships with
> Slack 10 would help me a lot, I reckon. Is there somewhere I could get
> it, or is it even provided with the kernel sources on the CD (I couldn't
> distinguish it by looking at it...)?
>
> regards,
> ~Mik

Other than the original (or the present) config being
in /boot/config-ide-2.4.26 or whatever file, you can find it on the
Slackware mirrors if you go to Slackware-10.0/kernels/* etc...

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