From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 3 8:42:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08E2037B43A for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Exel@SpeakEasy.Net) Received: (qmail 47268 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 15:42:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO POWERHOUSE) ([216.27.144.120]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2001 15:42:44 -0000 From: "Alex Vargas" To: Subject: Custom Kernel Question Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:49:29 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Re: FreeBSD 4.3-Stable root@darkside.shadoworld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DARKSIDE Sup, Newbies, I've been running FreeBSD for a couple of years now, and I still consider myself newbie to the whole experience. Mostly, I had the help of a friend who was a programmer and he pretty much helped me get my box up and stable from Day-1. Lately, my friend has gone M.I.A., and there are some key changes I need to make to my box: specifically I must enable multiple CPU support (I just upgraded the machine with another processor). So, my question is this: I know how to compile a customer kernel from scratch -- but what I would like to do is take my current kernel and use that one as a basis for the re-compile. Is there a way for me to either decompile and then recompile my current kernel, thereby preserving my current system settings. Or, better still, a way to extract the configs used at the time of compile and use those when I recompile. Any help in this is greatly appreciated. Thanks, in advance, for all your considerations. Peace. -Alex Vargas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message