From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 21:45:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (gsi.enoreo.on.ca [209.82.52.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0750E37B781 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from matt (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e7C4j9K71693; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:45:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001b01c00418$248c13e0$1200a8c0@matt> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Rajesh Saxena" , "FreeBSD questions" References: <3994CAC8.5B9FE687@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: any info on setting up make.conf Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:45:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, I'm trying to compile a kernel so I can get PPPoE and my > Soundblaster LIVE card to work. I was following the instructions in the > FreeBSD handbook on compiling/installing a new kernel when I came across > make.conf > installworld etc. but all it keeps saying is > > make:don't know how to make world. stop. From this error message, it appears that you're trying to do a 'make world'. This is not how you build a new kernel. Once you use the config command to configure the kernel, you need to switch to the compile directory before creating the kernel. Usually the compile directory is /usr/src/compile/. Once you're in that directory, you can do a 'make depend' followed by a 'make' and a 'make install'. This will create and install a new kernel. (You only need to do a 'make buildworld' or 'make installworld' if you plan on rebuilding your entire FreeBSD installation - something that you don't want to do if all you're doing is adding options to your kernel.) -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services +1 (800) 217-5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message