From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 2 9:59:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECFE37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EE743E6A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] (cerberus [192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g72GxgG56448 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200208020720.g727K4LR061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:59:51 -0700 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 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 # vi ... # config # cd ../../compile/ # 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