From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 12:29:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24816 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (CEDB.DPCSYS.com [207.124.154.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24808 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:29:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA27811; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:12:41 GMT Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Jeffrey J. Ayres" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: reconfiguring kernal In-Reply-To: <3306B2AE.44B7@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Jeffrey J. Ayres wrote: > I'm having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to reconfigure a > kernal. The scenario is I'm trying to set up Xfree86 to run with a PS/2 > mouse. The installation instructions say to lookup reconfiguring a > kernal in the handbook. Well after reading all 400 title pages in the > handbook I am unable to locate the page describing how to reconfigure > the kernal. I did find handbook page 32 describing the dev abbreviation Load handbook.html, the index page. See section 5 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel After editing the config file you need to run config CONFIG_FILE_NAME cd ../../compile/CONFIG_FILE_NAME make make install shutdown -r now Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82