From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 6:53:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459D537B413 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28794; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:23:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <018796C1.2D56734E.008057A8@netscape.net> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:23:23 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: PoolJamN@netscape.net Subject: RE: kernel configuration Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Aug-2001 PoolJamN@netscape.net wrote: > I recently purchaced the freeBSD 3rd edition kit (book & 10 cd's) and have > it installed and configured the best i need at this point, however i was > having a hard time trying to make since of what the book had to say about > configuring the kernel. I looked at the source code, but it didn't seem to > be right. I have an AMD/K6-2/400, 64M, SB16, RadioReveal, PCI NIC (intel > based), Adaptec 152x SCSI, SCSI cd, and 1 SCSI cd-r. > I'm pretty familure with Slackware Linux, however similar they are still > VERY different. Please help. It depends what you want to do :) The handbook describes how to configure the kernel (section 7). Basically you copy the GENERIC kernel (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf) to whatever you want to call your kernel and start adding bits from LINT. (I've redirected this to questions@ where it belongs :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message