Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:59:12 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Koen Heringa <noek@home.nl> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor error in freebsd handbook Message-ID: <20050912205912.GA23856@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4325EB57.1010302@home.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:55:51PM +0200, Koen Heringa wrote: > Hello, I think I found an error in the online freebsd handbook. > But I am not very sure because I am very new to bsd. > Anyway in Chapter 8 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel, > > *Procedure 1. Building a Kernel the ?Traditional? Way* > > 1. > > Run config(8) > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=config&sektion=8>; to > generate the kernel source code. > > # /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL > > I think the command should be > # /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/config MYKERNEL > > Atleast that's what I make of it when I lookup the config command in the > hyperlinked text. That's totally wrong. There's no normal way you could even end up with a copy of config in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/. > Not that it helps me much, because even when I do it this way it won't > work. For some reason you can't compile the original GENERIC kernel. > But that's somehting for questions@freebsd.org I suppose :) As a new user, you shouldn't be using the "Traditional" way unless you really have to. The other way is much more fool proof. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJewgXY6L6fI4GtQRAgPpAKC+9GPiR7sinkp1vQTk7Fj+W4hzGgCcDfLx SgPUgVY+yOJMZfekstbHsAg= =BsgW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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