From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 19:42: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow025o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A66737B406 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org ([62.31.80.67]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:41:53 +0100 Message-ID: <3B579A6F.7040602@cream.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:41:51 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Question, 7-19 References: <3B57A6D5.45B8FFDB@bu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi! Welcome to FreeBSD! Do you have the whole system sources installed, or just the kernel sources? You should have made this decision while installing. But basically, is there anything in /usr/src other than the sys directory? If there is, you should be using the "new" method as described in the handbook, otherwise you have to use the "old" way. But, the "old" way should work reguardless of what sources you have installed. Where you in the correct (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/) directory when you typed "/usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL"? BTW, don't ever worry about being considered 'worthy' by anyone! We were all in your situation of 'just starting out' at some point, you are exactly as worthy as we are! :-) Don't hesitate to drop me a line with any other questions. Andrew. John wrote: > I have followed the website instructions to the letter for creating a > custom kernel (what got me started was wanting to have sound > capability). So, I copied the generic kernel to one named "MYKERNEL". > I can see that this file exists, and I can open it with my "ee" editor. > I added the necessary "device pcm" line. > > But now, I've tried compiling it with both of the procedures you list on > your site. With procedure 1, I'm told that the file "MYKERNEL" doesn't > exist. With procedure 2, I'm told that I "cannot make buildkernel". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message