Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop

William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com)
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:11:34 -0400 (EDT)


Good day, John, Alan,

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 4: make bzImage && make modules && make modules install && cp
> > arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/'uname -r' something inside make menuconfig
>
> So really you want an outside GUI tool that lets you reconfigure build and
> install kernels. Yeah I'd agree with that. Someone just needs to write the
> killer gnome/kde config tool. I've got C code for parsing/loading config.in

Buildkernel, at http://buildkernel.stearns.org . It handles the
entire build process, from finger to lilo.
Not a gui, alas, but certainly reduces the amount of effort
involved.
Cheers,
- Bill

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