From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 4:52: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.micronet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797D815001 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (pppA101.francenet.fr [193.149.100.11]) by logatome.micronet.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03276; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:48:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37E0D8F2.BEFB16E7@kisoft-services.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:48:02 +0200 From: Eric MASSON Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Law Cc: Air Edwin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel compile References: <19990916082550.22229.rocketmail@web135.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > According to the handbook, the 'config' stated below > is supposed to be edited according to the kernel's > configuration name. This guy (sorry, I deleted the > email) doesn't seem to state what problems he's > having, and he's supposed to do 'make install' after > 'make', and reboot. According to the handbook, "You should always use kernel for kernel_name because changing it will render numerous system utilities inoperative." I sure agree that : config -r kernel_name, cd ../../compile/kernel_name, make depend, make and make install are mandatory. Eric -- Any opinions expressed above | Murphy's Law Corollary : are my own, not Kisoft's | Murphy was an optimist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message