Extracting kernel config - was: Question on building a new kernel

[Peter Buechler]

On Friday 04 April 2003 08:16 am, Bart Garst wrote:
> I looked into this and apparently RedHat does NOT enable this feature in
> their default kernels. It is rather cool though. In `make menuconfig`,
> under general setup, the help option does not elaborate on how to get the
> compressed config file out of the kernel image. How is this accomplished?

You just type 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | less' (or whatever the file is 
called). SuSE compiles all of their kernels with that option :-)