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At 02:06 PM 3/28/2002 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>P.S. You probably don't want to delete /usr/src if you want to do
>another buildworld without getting all the sources; and /usr/src/sys
>contains your kernel config file if you've edited the default
>GENERIC and the kernel sources (in case you want to build a
>custom kernel now or later).

Just a tip, I usually mv my custom kernel configs into /root/kernels and 
place them under RCS control.

Then I `ln -s /root/kernels/SYSTEM /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/SYSTEM`

Now your kernel configurations will be safe and changes documented over time.

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