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Re: RedHat-Athena kernel config?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Nov 16 17:45:22 1997

To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 16 Nov 1997 17:43:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: Edwin Foo's message of Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:35:11 -0500

Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Oh, I'm not asking for a custom config. I'm asking merely for a saved
> configuration file from of the build machines, because I am not sure
> whether if I install the kernel-src rpm, patch the code, and compile, that
> I will necessarily get the same kernel I started with except for the patch.
> If that is the case, then I will simply use the configuration as is. I was
> wondering whether the bootdisks distributed on small-gods have different
> kernels, and therefore kernel configs.

The kernel on the boot disk is straight from version 2.0.30-2 of the
Red Hat kernel packages; the kernel we install is 2.0.30-3.  In both
cases, I believe the relevant kernel-source and -headers packages are
consistent with the binaries.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]

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