From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 6:26:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD6DF37B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 29364 invoked by uid 100); 22 Mar 2001 14:26:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15034.2955.181591.540636@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:26:19 -0600 To: "John Moriarty" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a kernel In-Reply-To: <30684216@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Moriarty types: > Where, on the distribution of 4.2, can I find a copy of the GENERIC Kernel? The kernel config file is in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. John Moriarty types: > I am used to using BSDi, and am currently teaching myself the ins and outs > of FreeBSD. > > I am used to building kernels with > make clean > make depend > make > > Will this work with FreeBSD V 4.2? Yes, though you may need to do the "config" first; I'm not sure if 4.2 shipped with a config'ed kernel or not. Once you start updating sources from the cvs repository, things get confusing because the kernel build process depends on using the correct toolset. Details on all this are in the handbook at . http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message