Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:51 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Message-ID: <p05111b46b970690e5ba0@[192.168.254.205]> In-Reply-To: <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200208020720.g727K4LR061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <p05111b44b97058d28d68@[192.168.254.205]> <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org>
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Perhaps I'm just confused. As it happens, I DO have the sources on my FreeBSD machine, but I thought that (as in the case of SunOS) this was not really necessary to configure a new kernel. In any case, when I recently built a kernel, I didn't mess about in /usr/src at all. I just used the /sys/i386/conf area, as suggested by the config(8) page: config should be run from the conf subdirectory of the system source (usually /sys/ARCH/conf), where ARCH represents one of the architectures supported by FreeBSD. ... Hence, this is what I did: # cd /sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC <some_name> # vi <some_name> ... # config <some_name> # cd ../../compile/<some_name> # make depend # make # make install This seems rather simpler than the method discussed in the Handbook, but again, I may be missing something... -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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