<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>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.<br><br>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.<br></div></body></html>