From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 16:53:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CBD37BC8A for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat6.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.198]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id CAA23939 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 02:53:20 +0200 Received: (qmail 8119 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Mar 2000 13:07:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:07:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Daugherty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config KERNEL Message-ID: <20000324150755.E7289@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000324043054.B303@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from doc@wcug.wwu.edu on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:23:22PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:23:22PM -0800, David Daugherty wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:22:12PM -0800, David Daugherty wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to follow along with UPDATING and I'm going from 3.4-stable > > > to 4.0 stable. The kind of errors I'm getting are really impossible > > > to search fbsd's site for. Can someone please direct to documentation > > > or tell me what I'm doing wrong with how the kernel must now be > > > configured? > > > > Read the file /usr/src/UPDATING. One of the things mentioned in there > > is that you have to use the new `config' utility to configure a kernel, > > and that you have to compile/boot a new kernel before compiling the rest > > of the world. > The UPDATING file was not real clear to me. I didn't understand what they > were trying to say about this: > > # Your kernel config files need to be changed to s/controller/device/ in > # them. You will need a new version of config to do this. > > I understand about subbing devices for controllers but a new version of > config? Amazing! Plainly awesome :) You understood what I would bet that was the hard part, the s/EXP/SUBST/ thing, but well, .. anyway. You can build your new config by: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config # make clean # make all install I think that to build a new kernel, you might also find it useful to build a new version of genassym: # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/genassym # make clean # make all install - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message