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<para>Building the kernel involves a few steps: configuring it and compiling
it. There are a few ways to configure the kernel. If you don't like the
way this book does it, read the <filename>README</filename> that comes
-with the kernel source tree, and find out what the options are. The
-following commands are run to build the kernel:</para>
+with the kernel source tree, and find out what the options are.</para>
+
+<para>Something you could do, is take the .config file from your host
+distribution's kernel source tree and copy it to $LFS/usr/src/linux.
+This way you don't have to configure the entire kernel from scratch and
+can use your current values. If you choose to do this, first run the
+make mrproper command below, then copy the .config file over, then run
+make menuconfig.</para>
+
+<para>The following commands are run to build the kernel:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>cd /usr/src/linux &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make mrproper &amp;&amp;</userinput>