Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:51:34 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> Cc: "J. Goodleaf" <goodleaf@goodleaf.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make depend fails on Kernel Message-ID: <39812D76.7E9C091A@urx.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000727215343.3750A-100000@sloth>
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David Daugherty wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, J. Goodleaf wrote: > > > I don't know if it will help, but you might have better luck using the > > 'make buildkernel KERNEL=[your kernel]' 'make installkernel' method, which > > I believe is now the officially preferred method for kernel builds, > > especially with upgraded systems. This is detailed in /src/UPDATING. I > > don't know if it's yet filtered into the handbook, but I would definitely > > take a look at UPDATING. (It's not so bad. Initially, I was greatly peeved > > that my 'config' 'make' thing had been deprecated, but I don't think the > > newer method is at all a pain. There are just a few more steps to it.) > I looked on the bsd list archive and found I needed to go to /usr/src then > make buildkernel KERNEL=MACHINENAME I then get: > make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop > > This is not an upgrade. I just installed the src and hour and a half ago. Did you copy GENERIC into MACHINENAME? It won't work until you do. Kent > > Thanks. > > David > Software Engineer - NetManage > Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com > Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu > ICQ 21106703 > Washington State Resident > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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