Re: [Sheflug] Slackware X Setup

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] clara.co.uk>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Darrell Blake wrote:
>
> > Also, can anyone answer this. When Linux is installed and you "make xconfig" is it set to your current options or do you have to set everything up all over again? If I just wanted to add one module would I just select it and then save and the go through the whole kernel installation thing. If it does use your current config then does that mean that if I upgraded to 2.4.3 it would use my current config as a base or would I have to set up everything?
>
> make xconfig and make menuconfig both preserve your old options.
> make oldconfig only prompts for new options (options that are not set to a
> value of Y, N or M) e.g when you upgrade to a new kernel.

Is there a way to use an existing kernel as a template?  I just ask as
SuSE 7.1 did a good job from what I can tell when I installed, except it's
still got some sort of scsi support which I don't need.  I don't suppose
I'd get any real performance increase - I'd just like to know for if I
upgrade to 2.4.x, which I'm thinking about.

Thanks

Harvey


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