From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 22 17: 0:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC8037B403 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5MNtqH92308; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:55:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Wolfgang Zenker Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup stable-supfile does not update GENERIC (and others) kernel? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > > I also see in A Anderson's book FreeBSD - An Open Source Operating > > System for you Personal Computer, pg 341 step 5: > > > "Type cd /sys/i386/conf and cp GENERIC MYKERN. Edit this new copy of > > GENERIC called MYKERN, making the same kind of changes described in the > > previous chapter... > > > so it's best to start with a copy of the new GENERIC as a base rather > > than your old config file." > > > She mentions / suggests here that there should be a new copy of GENERIC > > listed in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf for me to use for producing the new > > kernel in step 7:- > > As I read the text you quoted, she suggests to copy the file GENERIC to > MYKERN. This makes MYKERN a new copy of GENERIC. > > > make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL > > make installkernel KERNCONF-MYKERN > > There seem to be a few minor errors here: "make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERN" > would actually build AND install a new kernel using the config file > named MYKERN. If you want to do it in two seperate steps, it would be > make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN > make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN > (Note there is a "=" instead of "-" in the installkernel line and I > used MYKERN everywhere instead MYKERN in one line and MYKERNEL in the other). Just in self-defense, the errors are not in the book but just in the retyped quote from the book. I appreciate knowing about any typos etc. because they are very difficult for the writer to catch, but the text in the book is as Wolfgang (correctly) states it. > Wolfgang Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message