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Challenge: Solution

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Let's look at how I solve the challenges in chapter five. The first question is, in the top level kernel source directory, copy the config file for your current kernel from slash boot and call it dot config. So our current kernel is 53040 generic. So let's copy from boot config dash, that and we're going to call it dot config. There we go, and then question number two, use make config or make xconfig to configure the kernel. And some parameters we want you to be sure to select. Well, let's use make xconfig for this. So under general setup, we should choose kernel.config support. So click on general setup. Come over here and look for kernel.config support. And let's make it static, then we don't have to load a module for that. And while we're at it, let's add enable access to dot config through proc config.gz, then we don't have to extract it from the kernel file itself. Alright, the next…

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