From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 17 1:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A0D37B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from co (pool0351.cvx8-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.178.171.96]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9H8OTD27153 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris Rocco" To: Subject: Building a new Kernel Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:24:52 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01c156e5$33390940$4163cd18@co> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doc, I am new to FreeBSD and was previously only a UNIX user, not an admin. I read over the section in the handbook about building a new kernel and had a problem with the example=85 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-b uilding.html Here is the procedure that I was trying to follow: Procedure 1. Building a kernel the ``traditional'' way 1. Run config(8) to generate the kernel source code. 2. # /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL 3. Change in to the build directory. 4. # cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL 5. Compile the kernel. 6. # make depend 7. # make 8. Install the new kernel. 9. # make install As it turned out, I needed to be in /usr/sbin/sys/i386/conf to start with, but I didn't see that listed anywhere. I first tried to follow Procedure 2, but that didn't work at all, so I tried #1 and once I got it to start working I never looked back at #2. (I even tried to use the whole path to MYKERNEL when I was in the wrong directory, wondering how config was supposed to find the config file, but that didn't work either.) Just wanted to pass that along. Thanks for your help. :) Chris =A0 ------------------------------------- Chris Rocco rocco@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message