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From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] default kernel config for livecd build
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:49:49
Message-Id: 458C285B.70903@cesmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] default kernel config for livecd build by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:15 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
3 >
4 >> I'm building a custom livecd and I want to use the *default* kernel
5 >> configuration file that goes with the stable kernel from
6 >> "gentoo-sources". According to the snapshot I'm using, 20061217, the
7 >> kernel is 2.6.18-r4. How can I find (or build) a kernel configuration
8 >> file that represents a default kernel?
9 >>
10 >
11 > I don't think I follow you. What are you looking for, exactly? What
12 > "default" do you mean? The Release Engineering default? The Linux
13 > Kernel team's default? My default for my personal machines? There
14 > really isn't a "default" per se. If you want what *I* would be using
15 > for 2007.0 (at this time), then you can grab the 2006.1 kernel config
16 > that was used for your architecture. In many cases, it is the exact
17 > same one that "genkernel all" uses.
18 >
19 >
20 Yeah ... I think the 2007.0 default today is what I want -- something
21 that would boot on an x86 and find all the hardware. What I'm trying to
22 avoid is using my own kernel config. First of all, it's built for an
23 Athlon T-Bird, second I'm running 2.6.19, third I've enabled just about
24 every networking option there is, ...
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27 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
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