Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:19:07 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: tpr@pics.com (Terry Rossi) Cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: greetings Message-ID: <199601291519.QAA17743@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199601291152.GAA23364@picspc01.pics.com> from "Terry Rossi" at Jan 29, 96 06:49:08 am
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> > -- [ From: Terry Rossi * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Doug, > > Thanks for this informative message, I just wanted to point out that in > step #3 the tar command needs to have the z option. i.e.: It had in the original message ( tar xzf ) :-) > cat ssys* |tar -zxvf - > > Thanks Again! > > Terry > > -------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- > > Date: Sunday, 28-Jan-96 08:31 PM > > From: Doug White \ Internet: > (dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu) > To: Bob Ratliff \ Internet: (ratliff@fastlane.net) > cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG \ Internet: (questions@freebsd.org) > > Subject: Re: greetings > > On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Bob Ratliff wrote: > > > What is the name of the standare FreeBSD 4.4 release kernel? > > I need to configure the mouse. I am reading the faq and my > > kernel.GENERIC seems to not be a binary config file. > > It's not. > > Let's clarify: > > 1. The standard kernel installed by default is GENERIC, which is called > ``kernel'' in your / directory. > > 2. ``kernel.GENERIC'' IS a compiled, ready-to-boot kernel. > > 3. If you want to build a new kernel, you need the kernel sources, aka the > ``sys'' distribution. If you did not install this, you can fetch it from > ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*. Download into a > directory, su to root, cd /usr/src, cat ssys.* | tar xzf - to install the > sources; then go into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, copy LINT to MYKERNEL (or > whatever you want to call it), and modify as you wish. Your new kernel > config will be in flat text. > > 4. cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend && make, copy kernel to /, > reboot, and have fun :) See the Handbook for more info. > > 5. FreeBSD uses a version scheme departed from the Berkley numbers, so the > current release is 2.1. > > Hope this helps, and sorry if I went overboard :) You sound like you know > about rebuilding kernels, but not the FreeBSD way. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > -------- REPLY, End of original message -------- > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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