On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:04:39PM -0600, Brandon Hutchinson wrote: > Hello! > > I'm running Red Hat 7.2 and want to add NTFS read (at least) support to the > kernel. Apparently Red Hat does not include this support in provided kernel. > > Is there an easy way to take your current configuration and have it dumped to > a ".config" file in /usr/src/linux so that I can simply add NTFS support > without having to go through all of the kernel configuration options? Of > course, I would then go through the required steps to build and install the > new kernel. > > I'm not sure how the Red Hat install works, but it seems to automagically > build modules of my sound card, network interface, etc. When building a > kernel from scratch, I'm sure that most of my machine-specific options are > not included; I want to make sure I don't miss anything when building a new > kernel. > > Is something like this possible? Well, this shouldn't be too hard. Download the kernel-source RPM for your kernel version (from a redhat.com or updates.redhat.com mirror). Then install the RPM. The kernel source will be put in /usr/src/linux-<version>. Go to /usr/src/linux-<version>/configs and look at the .configs in there. One of those configs will match your kernel (run uname -a to see what you're using). Go to /usr/src/linux-<kernel_version> and run 'make menuconfig'. Scroll to the bottom and choose to load an alternate config and load the appropriate .config from /usr/src/linux-<version>/configs. Search through the options, find and choose NTFS support, then build your kernel ('make dep ; make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install, etc, etc). Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu