Re: configuring the kernel

[Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>]

"Rob" <rwideman@austin.rr.com> writes:

> 1-does "make menuconfig" require X to be installed? I dont have X, i just
> have RH 7.1 with kernel dev and kernel sources installed (atleast those were
> the ONLY things i had selected during install).

No, all you need is the 'ncurses-devel' package.  

> 2-if i untared/unpacked the kernel to the folder /root/newkern (here is
> where i did the "gzip -cd linux 2.4.7...... |tar xvf -" command) is it ok to
> delete the newkern folder and unpack nd then do the "make menuconfig"?

Yes, but this will reset your configuration to the defaults.  If you
want to preserve the choices you made and then modify them in
menuconfig, save off the '.config' file before nuking, then move it
into the newly unpacked directory.

That said, you shouldn't have to remove the source tree.  Simply do:

$ make menuconfig
$ make dep && make clean && make bzImage

-Doug
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