[clue-tech] kernel config file

Shawn - Red Mop redmop924 at comcast.net
Thu May 21 08:44:13 MDT 2009


I think that Kevin is looking to make a kernel that includes only the options he actually uses.  I don't think that there is any good easy way to do that without doing it manually.  My bash line just provides a start.

Shawn

On Thursday 21 May 2009 07:17:01 am dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> I looked in a book about the kernel, and it says that if the kernel is configured to do so, it puts config.gz into /proc, and that you can unzip that file into the kernel source and use it to build a new kernel. 
> 
> I don't know how many distros do this. I don't know how many put a copy of the config file into /boot either. 
> 
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