From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 23 14:39:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8B337B403 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 79203 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Sep 2001 21:39:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 21:39:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:39:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Subject: Updating kernel build instructions Message-ID: <20010923163611.F79081-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was just helping someone setup a freebsd 4.4 box, and I noticed that he was using the old method of building kernels. I wondered where he was getting this from, and checked the handbook on the website - sure enough, we still list the directions. Since these directions are quite different than the buildkernel/buildworld system, can we totally remove them? If not, they should be explained to be mutually exclusive, NOT just two ways to do the same thing. Perhaps the "old way" could be called "FreeBSD 4.2 and older", while the "new way" could be called "FreeBSD 4.3 and above." If someone more familiar with docs could make one of the two changes, I'd appreciate it. If not, I guess I'll have to dive in and learn docbook next week. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message