From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 18 7:35:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CACB37B417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0IFZxD67356; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:35:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C484293.5030604@pittgoth.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:43:15 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Meade Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 9.3 Building and Installing a Custom Kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Erik Meade wrote: > Thanks for the great work on the docs, the past few years I have been using > RedHat, and it is a nice surprise > to be able to go to one document for most of my needs. > > I did find one discrepancy recently while rebuilding my 4.4 STABLE kernel. > According to: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-build > ing.html > > Note: If there is not a /usr/src/sys directory on your system, then the > kernel source has not been installed. The easiest way to do this is by > running /stand/sysinstall as root, choosing Configure, then Distributions, > then src, then sys. If you have an aversion to sysinstall and you have > access to an ``official'' FreeBSD CDROM, then you can also install the > source from the command line : > > I found I also had to make sure to sysinstall Configure -> Distributions -> > src -> sys -> base, otherwise make > doesn't know how to buildkernel. I still ended up with an error that I > resolved by just installing all of the > src. > > Sincerely, > Erik Meade > emeade@geekfarm.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > > > I will check on this using my 4.4 cd tonight :) Hopefully I will be able to fix this with my next submission (hopefully monday) which will update much of the kernel config to 4.5 :) Thanks alot for pointing this out Erik -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message