Re: A newbie's view

["Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu>]

> > ELF format support (Y/N/M)?
> > 
> > (where N or M make the kernel unbootable)
> > 
> > is perhaps an extreme example - and you could get around it with just a
> > 
> > 'You selected N or M for ELF or IDE support. This will probably make the kernel
> > unbootable. Press F3 to confirm your choice'
> 
> have you tried make menuconfig or make xconfig (is xconfig working again?)
> 
> they are menu driven and have nice accessible help files.

	Documentation isn't that useful if it isn't always read or paid
attention to.  It is a sad statement, but when someone compiles the kernel
for the first time they may not know what the really wrong choices to make
are.

-Seth
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