[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel compilation query

[Daniel Hauck]

On an asside, Tom Leykis doesn't read this list.

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From: "Pace, Jonathan" <JPace at belo.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel compilation query


> long time listener, first time caller....
>
>
> so when you install new kernel sources from redhat produced rpms, there's
a
> /usr/src/linux*/configs directory that has some predifined template-type
> deals that can be used as your starting /usr/src/linux*/.config file that
> i've found helpful, but i recently downloaded a tar.gz from kernel.org as
i
> need to go to a later version than is distributed via rpm and found no
such
> directory in the tarball, therefore i have no such starting templates,
> making the 'make menuconfig' step require a little more attention.  is
this
> a non-standard type thing that redhat includes in the packages that i
should
> just consider a crutch and get over, or should i get my tarball from
> somewhere else (thought kernel.org was the definitive place).
>
> jwp
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