Once upon a time, Jonathan Andrews <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > I only mention this as im on my 10th pass at trying to build a core 1 > kernel, so im not bitter ;-) What happens to the .configs RH use to > build the kernel, the supplied ones are decoration and seem to be no use > at all, or am I missing the point or just a plonker ? Please vote now ! rpm -ivh kernel-<version>.src.rpm cd <rpm home>/SPECS rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec cd ../BUILD/kernel-<version>/linux-<version> The configs are in the (who'd have guessed it) configs directory of the expanded source tree. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.