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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:13:38 +1030
From:      Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au>
To:        Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20041118214337.GB5108@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <877D356B-399E-11D9-A404-000393934006@npc-usa.com>
References:  <20041109013813.GC576@internode.com.au> <308DF423-399E-11D9-A404-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <877D356B-399E-11D9-A404-000393934006@npc-usa.com>

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:15:02PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said:
> Maybe you can disregard that. Looking at "The Complete FreeBSD" I see 
> that you can just use GENERIC, if you want. So, I typed:

Oh!  I had just answered, too :-)

> make buildworld KERNCONF=GENERIC
> 
> and off it went.
> 
> Any reason why I wouldn't want to use GENERIC?  I haven't compiled 
> anything special for my kernel.

None at all, except that using GENERIC gives you a base-line kernel to go
back to if you have any problems.  It's a good habit to use a different
file name as your main kernel if you are going to do any kernel changes.


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