Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:12:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Guenther Schmidt <guenther.schmidt@worldcity.nl> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Kernel customization Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990804200718.20420J-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <37A8D0DF.FF44210B@worldcity.nl>
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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Guenther Schmidt wrote:
> I'm just having my second go on FreeBSD (version 3.2 this time) and I
> wanted to reconfigure the kernel. According to the handbook I just! have
> to edit the .config (subsection arch), the easy way.
>
> It's taking the piss that is!
>
>
> Isn't there a realy easy way (like make menuconfig under Linux) to do
> so?
>
> Thanks upfront for any replies!
urm, interesting analogy, however you must have mis-read something.
the proper way to reconfigure and build a kernel is this set of steps:
become root
-- get the kernel source unpacked into /usr/src/sys
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MYKERN
vi MYKERN
-- look at the LINT file in the same directory for additional options
-- add/remove options from MYKERN
-- exit vi
config MYKERN
cd ../../compile/MYKERN
make depend && make all && make install
-- providing the above commands work...
reboot
-- wait for system to come back up, if it doesn't choose kernel.GENERIC
-- at the bootloader
lines prefixed with '--' are pseudo steps. lines that aren't
are actual commands to run.
it's really not that bad. :)
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
systems administrator and programmer
Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/
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