Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:17:13 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Message-ID: <3D4ABE99.5020908@pittgoth.com> References: <200208020720.g727K4LR061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <p05111b44b97058d28d68@[192.168.254.205]> <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> <p05111b46b970690e5ba0@[192.168.254.205]>
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Rich Morin wrote:
> 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>
I was always use 'config -g' see if that helps
> # 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
>
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