From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 00:02:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C346C16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:02:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCFC843D1F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:02:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 3630 invoked by uid 65534); 27 Sep 2004 00:02:32 -0000 Received: from p5090C357.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.1.4]) (80.144.195.87) by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 27 Sep 2004 02:02:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <41575897.5040603@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:02:31 +0200 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040830 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: acarranza@nubiandirections.org References: <200409261458.06180.acarranza@nubiandirections.org> In-Reply-To: <200409261458.06180.acarranza@nubiandirections.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:02:34 -0000 Aaron wrote: > I will like to thank you before hand for what you are doing for bsd user. > > I am a new bsd user who is trying to learn how to buil a kernel or custimize > it. I am reading the book absolute bsd and I am using 5.1 version > . I followed the step in configuring my kernel. I ran the cvsup update before > trying to build the kernel so everything will be up to date. However, I am > getting these messeges > > SecondAdvent# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > SecondAdvent# ls > GENERIC Makefile OLDCARD SECONDADVENT > GENERIC.hints NOTES PAE gethints.awk > SecondAdvent# config SECONDADVENT > ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! > config version = 500012, version required = 600000 [...] According to the handbook [1], the method you use is obsolete. The kernel should be rebuild using "make buildkernel". I'm not sure, though, if rebuilding the kernel in "the new way" solves your problem. Judging from the Amazon webpage, the book you have came out in 2002, so I assume it describes the 4.x series of FreeBSD. You might want to read Chapter 8 [2] of the handbook, which describes how to rebuild your kernel. Also, you might find Section 19.4 [3] useful, which describes how to rebuild the base system. After rebuilding the system, take a look at portupgrade. > Here is the output of uname -a > SecondAdvent# uname -a > FreeBSD SecondAdvent.hvc.rr.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0:[...] Make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING if you go from 5.1-Release to a newer version. Lots of changes went in since then. If you have a broadband internet connection, you might find it easier to download the ISO image of the most recent 5.3-BETA built and go from there. HTH, Phil. [1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html [2]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html [3]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat@freebsd.org