From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 04:20:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA25144 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [198.81.209.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25139 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA00271; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:22:31 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:22:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1.lightside.net To: Douglas Santry cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building the 2.1 kernel In-Reply-To: <199603181501.KAA15948@church.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Douglas Santry wrote: > > Help! I can't find any documentation on how to build the kernel in FreeBSD 2.1 > which I bought on cdrom from Walnut Creek. I installed the kernel sources > but the Makefile only builds the libkern stuff. How do I build the kernel? > Or where can I get the docs on how to build the kernel? See Chapter 5 of the FreeBSD handbook. It covers the topic pretty thoroughly. Basically you need to make a custom kernel configuration file, then use the "config" program to set up the files, then type make in the new directory that config creates. The FreeBSD handbook is in HTML format in /usr/share/doc/handbook, and the latest version is at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------