From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 15 10:42:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BB837B542; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id TAA63766; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26030; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:42:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm fixing the build/install kernel target In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you feel that kernel reconfiguration is a must for the novice user (the one > who might get bit by not paying attention to overwriting a bootable kernel, > i.e., not using the current 'make install', which will most certainly leave > you with a bootable kernel/modules set if the new one is wrong), then instead > of making this process super safe, I suggest that the install tools are a > better place to do this. We should then take the approach that, say, Tru64 > takes, and reconfig and rebuild a kernel specific for a user's configuration > as part of the install process. Actually, this would, IMHO, be the most worthwhile way out, in that it would reduce the chance of newbies biting themselves where it hurts. I think it would also probably be welcome to spend as little time as you need to for the experienced ones, as well. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message