From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 22 8: 7:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5801337B682 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000722150739.POFN11071.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:07:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3979B866.71DB447E@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:06:14 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Innacurate statements in handbook about buildkernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the handbook in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html it says: When you are finished, type the following to compile and install your kernel if you are using FreeBSD prior FreeBSD 4.0 and don't want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step. .... usual config method For FreeBSD 4.x or later (or upgrading from FreeBSD 3.x to FreeBSD 4.x or higher), use the following commands (be sure you have built world before!): .... new make buildworld method Clearly, this is not going to work if the user using a release version of freebsd and has not loaded all the sources (the instructions currently tell him/her to only load the sys portion of the sources). Then the user should use the config method. If you agree with me, I'll send a pr. Stephen -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message