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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:48:47 +0200
From:      "Brossin Pierrick" <pbrossin@wxp.homeip.net>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with compiling my own kernel
Message-ID:  <000701c22610$d6506380$3200000a@nitrox>
References:  <20020707.163204.-278955.0.david.and.laura@juno.com>

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>> 1) How do I access the floppy drive? I tried to copy FREEBIE as a
>> text file to a floppy so I could e-mail it but I couldn't make it
>> work.

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
cd mnt

>> 2) I followed the directions in the FREEBSD book. I copied GENERIC
>> and named it FREEBIE. I went thru going to ../../compile/FREEBIE and
>> did a 'make depend' which executed without error. But when I am in
>> the same directory and run 'make' it bombs out with an error trying
>> to reference "midi_***" files, but all I did was try to add "device
>> sb0  at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1" so my sound card would be
>> supported. What did I do wrong? (I would have sent you the text
>> file, but my ISP only supports Windows based OSs, and question #1
>> shows what else I tried to do)

Try doing the following.

cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=FREEBIE
make installkernel KERNCONF=FREEBIE

don't forget that if you current kernel doesn't work you can still load the
old one (named kernel.old)
check the handbook for further information

>> Thank you for your time.

Some people here are taking time to answer my questions so I'm doing the
same ! :)

Cya


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