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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Building a kernel with config ?
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> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:42 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:
>
>2. Building a kernel with config is not officially supported. It's at
>   your risk and may not work in all cases. Build a kernel with:
>   cd /usr/src
>   make buildkernel

I was not aware that you wern't supposed to use config anymore - and I
am not convinced that the suggested alternative is actually a replacement
as I thought that buildkernel required you to have built the world first ?
Is this no longer true ? If it *is* true thhen what is the alternative to
using 'config' which should be used if you are on a system where you do
not have the time or the disc space to rebuild the world and simply want
to recompile the kernel ?

-pete.