configuring the kernel

configuring the kernel

[Rob]

I have a couple questions of which i am unsure of.  Last nite i did my first
kernel compilation and i am thinking that i might have been too tired for
doing this at 6A (yes stayed up all nite).  I might have said yes to a few
things and no to a few things that i shouldnt have and want to reconfigure
the kernel.  The only problem is i am not sitting through another 1.5 hrs of
Y/N questions on which 75% i am not sure of while not having any sleep for
about 25 hrs. I would rather install RH 2 or 3 before going through that
again.
I have RH 7.1 and want to update to 2.4.7. I have the most basic install
(the only thing i selected during isntall was kernel development and
development so i can compile and redo the kernel of course).

Qustions:
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).
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"?

Re: configuring the kernel

[Doug McNaught]

"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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Re: configuring the kernel

[Per Jessen]

0On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:11:44 -0500, Rob wrote:

>Qustions:
>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, no requirement for X. 

>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"?

Yep, sounds ok to me. I tend to keep my kernel sources in /usr/src/linux-2.4.7,
with a symlink /usr/src/linux->linux-2.4.7. Dunno if that's the convention,
but it works for me.

Rob, you would probably be better off asking this on the linux newbie list - 
the kernel list is very busy.
Hope this helps - feel free to mail me directly.


regards,
Per Jessen





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