Re: Kernel config/compils (was what file?)

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also make config if you don't have curses installed. ;)

Kevin

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, damaged justice wrote:

> Hank writes:
> 
> >At the meeting on Tuesday I was asking about getting my SCSI card working
> >and was told to run, what I thought was
> >
> >make xconfig
> >
> >but I have no xconfig file that I can find. What file do I need to make to
> >configure my kernal?
> 
> 'xconfig' is only available if you have the Tk libraries installed, and if
> you already have X running. (Apologies if you already knew this.) There is
> also a text-based menu of options if you do
> 
> make menuconfig
> 
> You must also be in the correct directory; generally this is /usr/src/linux
> (which is usually a link to somewhere else).
> 
> The Kernel-HOWTO is at
> 
> http://howto.linuxberg.com/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
> 
> It hasn't been updated since May of 1997, but most of the stuff in it should
> still be accurate. Be sure to follow the safety precautions mentioned in
> section 4.4, "Installing the kernel"; in case the new kernel is not usable
> for whatever reason, it's no big deal as long as you can easily go back to
> the old one.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what SCSI controller are you running? I take it that it's not
> supported in the default kernel? 
> 
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