From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 17:10:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F6C14F73 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA07609; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:13:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:12:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Guenther Schmidt Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Kernel customization In-Reply-To: <37A8D0DF.FF44210B@worldcity.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message