From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 3:10:32 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 454FB37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idoru.mine.nu (pc1-cdif1-5-cust192.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.216.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968A543E5E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@idoru.mine.nu) Received: from setantae by idoru.mine.nu with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17beoi-0000x7-00; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:10:24 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:10:24 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Message-ID: <20020805101024.GA3655@idoru.tenten> References: <200208020720.g727K4LR061796@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020802183635.A54849@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:59:51AM -0700, Rich Morin said: Hi Rich, > 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: You can't build or reconfigure (though see below) a kernel without sources. > Hence, this is what I did: > > # cd /sys/i386/conf /sys is a symlink to /usr/src/sys (by default). We're not Solaris, but you can achieve somewhat similar things by making use of sysctls and /etc/sysctl.conf, and perhaps loader flags in /boot/loader.conf (I'm not sure where this is documented, as I can't get to a FreeBSD machine at the moment, but it's probably the manpage for loader). Ceri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message