From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 16 8:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C6E14DEF for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 08:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id SAA64399; Sun, 16 May 1999 18:36:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:36:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Wayne Cuddy Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: how to build kernel after cvsup Message-ID: <19990516183654.A43002@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Wayne Cuddy on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:47:03AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:47:03AM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > Ok I used the supfile from the handbook and decided to pull down the entire > source tree.(src-all) When I try to configure the GENERIC kernel 'config > GENERIC' I get this message > > >config: can't open ../conf/devices.i386 > > Why does this happen Make sure that /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/devices.i386 exists. > and how can a build a new kernel from the cvsupped > sources? You shouldn't rebuild only the kernel. Instead, you should rebuild the whole stuff. See ``Upgrading FreeBSD from source (using make world)'' tutorial at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ for details. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message