From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 2 10:45:31 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 98B7237B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037C143E65 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g72HhuKI055320; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:43:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g72HhtSx055319; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:43:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:43:55 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/41253: config(8) and/or Handbook deficiency Message-ID: <20020802194355.B54849@abigail.blackend.org> 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 User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rdm@cfcl.com on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:59:51AM -0700 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE 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 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 > # 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... > Maybe, I'm starting to see your point, you talk about a "building a kernel in a nutshell" section with just the mandatory operations followed after by more explanations? In the section we can find your way but with additional things, maybe the "look" of the page has to be reworked... I don't know. In fact about that chapter, some people will want directly the commands and others many explanations and guidelines, it is the problem of that sort of subject. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message