From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 10:21: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE78837B42C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02797; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:20:54 -0700 Message-ID: <39A407F6.27FEEE13@urx.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:20:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daryl Chance Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Kernel.GENERIC in FreeBSD 4.1 (creating it) References: <007101c00d23$35e39e60$0200000a@development1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daryl Chance wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded (all but mergemaster) from 4.0 to 4.0 and > noticed the way the kernel is built is a little differnt. > I noticed also there is a kernel file and a module directory, > along with a kernel.old and a module.old directory. Don't forget to do a mergemaster after every installworld. > > what would be the easiest way to create a kernel.GENERIC > and module.GENERIC w/o making generic, installing, installing > my cusotom one and copying .old to .GENERIC. is there a > way i can tell it to install as .GENERIC? I like the old way of building a kernel but it was causing too much trouble and now it is gone. I don't thing you need a module.GENERIC. The GENERIC just builds more modules. I don't think it builds them differently, which is what you would need a module.GENERIC for. Kent > > Thanks, > -------------------------------------------------------- > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message