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Subject: Re: greetings
To: tpr@pics.com (Terry Rossi)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:19:07 +0100 (MET)
Cc: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199601291152.GAA23364@picspc01.pics.com> from "Terry Rossi" at Jan 29, 96 06:49:08 am
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> -- [ From: Terry Rossi * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> 
> Doug,
>  
> Thanks for this informative message,  I just wanted to point out that in
> step #3 the tar command needs to have the z option.  i.e.:

It had in the original message ( tar xzf )  :-)




> cat ssys* |tar -zxvf -
> 
> Thanks Again!
> 
> Terry
> 
> -------- REPLY, Original message follows --------
> 
> Date: Sunday, 28-Jan-96 08:31 PM
> 
> From: Doug White               \ Internet:   
> (dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu)
> To:   Bob Ratliff              \ Internet:    (ratliff@fastlane.net)
> cc:   questions@FreeBSD.ORG    \ Internet:    (questions@freebsd.org)
> 
> Subject: Re: greetings
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Bob Ratliff wrote:
> 
> > What is the name of the standare FreeBSD 4.4 release kernel?
> > I need to configure the mouse. I am reading the faq and my
> > kernel.GENERIC seems to not be a binary config file.
> 
> It's not. 
> 
> Let's clarify:
> 
> 1.  The standard kernel installed by default is GENERIC, which is called 
> ``kernel'' in your / directory.  
> 
> 2.  ``kernel.GENERIC'' IS a compiled, ready-to-boot kernel.  
> 
> 3.  If you want to build a new kernel, you need the kernel sources, aka  the
> ``sys'' distribution.  If you did not install this, you can fetch it  from
> ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*.  Download  into a
> directory, su to root, cd /usr/src, cat ssys.* | tar xzf - to  install the
> sources; then go into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, copy LINT to  MYKERNEL (or
> whatever you want to call it), and modify as you wish.  Your  new kernel
> config will be in flat text.
> 
> 4.  cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend && make, copy kernel to /, 
> reboot, and have fun :)  See the Handbook for more info.
> 
> 5.  FreeBSD uses a version scheme departed from the Berkley numbers, so  the
> current release is 2.1.  
> 
> Hope this helps, and sorry if I went overboard :)  You sound like you  know
> about rebuilding kernels, but not the FreeBSD way.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
> 
> -------- REPLY, End of original message --------
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de