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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:44:12 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen F. Combs" <combssf@salem.ge.com>
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To: questions@freebsd.org, ipc1@tribeca.ios.com
Subject: Re: 2.1 kernel builds
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You need to install the 'kernel' sources.  Without them, you can't configure
and re-build a kernel.

Steve Combs

> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Wed Dec 20 15:40:52 1995
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:56:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Dale Benzer <ipc1@tribeca.ios.com>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: 2.1 kernel builds
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> 	
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm trying to customize my kernal on a new install of FreeBSD 2.1. The 
> Handbook says the GENERIC should be in /usr/src/sys/i386, but I don't 
> even have anything in the /usr/src directory let alone the sys.
> 
> I do have a file named kernel on my / directory and a kernel.GENERIC in 
> the same place. I seem to have a /sys directory, but when I try to cd to 
> it, BSD tells me there is no such directory. And vi denies it is a file.
> 
> Anyway, the Handbook seems to be wrong for version 2.1. Are there 
> instructions somewhere so I can get the nonexistant devices out of the 
> kernel??
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dale Benzer
> 
>