From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 2 10:15: 5 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 0EB9137B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DAF43E42 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Received: from pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-231-94.zoominternet.net [24.154.231.94]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g72HEv6a018731; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:14:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3D4ABE99.5020908@pittgoth.com> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:17:13 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency References: <200208020720.g727K4LR061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> 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 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 > # vi > ... > # config I was always use 'config -g' see if that helps > # 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 > -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Discussion Forum www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve trhodes@ {Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message