From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 16:37:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21573 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21564 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:37:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25079; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:37:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Pradesh Chanderpaul cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISSUE : Kernel configuration file from built kernel In-Reply-To: <3D96819C11B8D011B0780020AFB865C22022CB@OLIBRMES> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Pradesh Chanderpaul wrote: > Is there any way to extract a kernel configuration file > from a built kernel. > > - I installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 without the sys source. > - I then needed to rebuild my kernel for PPP changes. > - I then installed the sys distribution and rebuilt a copy > of the kernel configuration file provided by the > distribution. > - I rebooted and found that I had "lost" my old configuration > as MANY things (eg. ping localhost) would not work. Please explain what you mean by 'lost my old configuration.' If you were expecting the -c changes to migrate, they won't. If you want them to be present when you build new kernels change the kernel config file. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message