[GLLUG] Recompiling problem

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 23 August 2002 14:45, after a long battle with technology, 
Michael Harrington wrote in a private message to 
danceswithcrows@usa...:

Tech-support questions that start on a mailing list (or Usenet) should 
remain there unless they stray offtopic.  The whole point of these 
lists/Usenet is so that more people can look at the messages and 
suggest things to try and/or point out mistakes.

> dmseg shows that /dev/hdb is my dvd drive.  I was following
> instructions by a forensic guy that works for Redhat.  Does that
> ide-cd exist in ata/ide support under menu config.  

ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support->IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices->include
IDE/ATAPI CDROM support is the place.  It should be "M", but if it's "Y" 
that'll work too.

> If it is enabled
> by default then I didn't changes it and the iinstructions don't
> indicate going into there...

Don't know for sure how Redhat does this, but SuSE sets this option to 
"Y" by default.

> Is there a way to examine the default kernel
> that was built when I installed Redhat so I can make a guess at where
> my problem lies?

If /proc/config.gz exists, you can examine the configuration of the 
currently running kernel by doing "gunzip /proc/config.gz | less".  All 
kernels built by distros should have this enabled now.  This is under 
Filesystems->/proc/config.gz .  I think this feature was new in 2.4.18.  

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