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[Mitch Pirtle]

Jon Baer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Someone asked me to configure something which is requiring the kernel to be 
> rebuilt w/ specific configurations and Im creating a complete mess :-) fun 
> fun fun.  Does anyone know a really good tutorial or something for building a 
> new fresh kernel?  Ive accomplished it once before (by picking a 4 leaf 
> clover) ... Id even pay a few bucks if someone can spare time to show me how 
> the magic is done ...

If you are working from an existing RH9 machine, I can assure you that 
you'll never replicate the kernel tweaks from RedHat to get a 
similarly-configured kernel.

The easiest way to deal with this is to install the kernel-source RPM, 
and build from there.  I had to do this on a machine that was using ext3 
filesystems, as RedHat's kernel tweaks appear to be somewhat proprietary 
(or I never figured out how to duplicate that functionality with source 
from kernel.org).

When you install the kernel-source RPM, you will see in those 
directories that they provide example config files for different 
architectures - this will give you the system that you are looking for...

HTH,

-- Mitch