From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 6:34:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (core1.hck.carroll.com [216.44.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B2037B43F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from damien@localhost) by 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA29238; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:34:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damien) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:34:19 -0400 From: Damien Tougas To: Max Khon Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote 3.5 -> 4.1-STABLE source upgrade (updated) Message-ID: <20000912093419.B29216@carroll.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:21:37PM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:21:37PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: >2) make buildkernel KERNEL=GENERIC && make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC Just curious, what is the purpose of doing this step before doing the installworld? Is this done do make sure that the the kernel works ok before installing the rest of the OS? Secondly, why would I want to build the GENERIC kernel instead of my custom kernel? Thanks, -- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message