Alexander... On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:21, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 15.10.2004 schrieb John Francis Lee um 4:54: > > > > > cp /boot/.config-2.6.5-1.358 .config > > > > make oldconfig > > > > > > You should run "make oldconfig" twice - just to be sure. Under some > > > conditions that is needed. > > What about the guy in the previous post, Jeff Vian, who tells me this is > > the wrong thing to do to begin with? > > He did tell you to better choose the better fitting > /boot/.config-2.6.8-1.521 kernel config file because you did take the > one for the older 2.6.5 kernel. I have no such config... I got my kernel from kernel.org... is there some problem now with compiling linus' kernel on redhat? > > > > > make xconfig > > > > > > What do you change here? Do you add modules or deactivate some? > > > > I removed many modules that I do not need. The default Fedora config > > makes so many modules that the make had previously failed when I ran out > > of room on my root volume. > > So, when you start from scratch building your custom kernel, then start > editing and removing modules from bottom of the xconfig window. This > takes better care that you do not remove things on top which are needed > by others below. > > > John Francis Lee <jfl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Alexander -- John Francis Lee <jfl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
