Hey,

I am trying to find the .config file for my redhat 7.2 kernel. I have read the documentation and some threads here about where it should be and still can't seem to find it. The redhat customization guide said it should be in /usr/src/linux. I have no such dir I have /usr/src/redhat with subdirs BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS and tarballs which ls -a shows all to be empty. This may be because I did an ftp install.

As far as generating a .config file I found this:

>After you install the kernel source from the installation cd, you run the >command make oldconfig. If you are using RedHat 7.2, this places the >RedHat default .config file in /usr/src/linux-<kernel version>

Which means I need an appropriate make file in the appropriate dir for the command to work. If someone would help me out here I would greatly appreciate it. I am new to Linux and kernel specifics but I have used unix for a few years.

Thanks in advance,

if you've installed kernel-source and kernel-headers packages it should be in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/ directory just pick the one which corresponds to the output of uname -a

And I can see that you didn't install kernel-source package (there is no /usr/src/linux-2.4), so go ahead and install it off installation CD's

Thanks for the effort, but I did an ftp installation, so I don't have any CD's. I think what I need is a makefile for 7.2 so that I can run
"make oldconfig" to generate a .config file for my system.

YUou can always get source directly from http://www.kernel.org
there are also kernel packages available in the rpm format at http://rpmfind.net
but my suggestion is to refrain from installing kernel from rpm.

David Reid, you can go into your mirrors ftp directory and still install the kernel-source file. As long as you have a decent working network connection you can just d/l it and go that route.