[oclug] Oldest Linux install?

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:57:30AM -0500, Milan Budimirovic wrote:
> Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:
> 
> >Hi All,
> >
> >
> >On the subject of compiling the kernel. I remember that when you recompiled
> >the kernel and included only the drivers and software that you needed, it
> >was just amazing the difference in speed and size of the kernel. You ran a
> >script and answered about 80 or 90 questions and away it went. I tried to 
> >do
> >that about 6 months on Red Hat and found a similar script.  Thinking that
> >life was good, I began to answer the questions, "yes", "no", "maybe" or
> >"sometimes".  It was a bit confusing in some of the questions/responses and
> >I would take a WAG.  After the 390th question with no end it sight, (they
> >should have a questions to go counter), I gave up.  So, this leads to my
> >question, "Is there a better way or some quicker method to configure a
> >kernel?".
>
> I find that the best way is to take a config file from either your 
> default installation or from a custom kernel known to work with your 
> hardware configuration, copy it to .config into your source tree, then 
> run 'make xconfig' and uncheck everything you know you don't need.

I prefer "make menuconfig" since it doesn't have the graphics overhead
and doesn't need mouse navigation.  Otherwise, it is the same as "make
xconfig".

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