From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 04:48:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA11305 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lenzi ([200.247.248.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA11299 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lenzi@localhost) by lenzi (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06993; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:37:43 -0300 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:37:39 -0300 (EST) From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@lenzi To: "Rosa Ma. Nielsen G." cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recompiling Kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Rosa Ma. Nielsen G. wrote: > =09I have just recently instaled FreeBSD on my computer (by the way,=20 > is excelent), and also installed XFree86. I have a PS/2 mouse, and I=20 > configured it on the first instalation (and from /stand/sysinstall). And= =20 > I know I have to recompile the Kernel, but acording to the instructions I= =20 > saw I have to get into the /sys directory, and I can=B4t acces this=20 > directory, even when I=B4m logged as root. I don=B4t really know what can= be=20 > ging wrong, I downloaded FreeBSD from the Internet, so I have the most=20 > basic configuration (plus the manpages and XFree86). Hello Rosa. Seems you have not installed the system sources. if so, 1) mount the CD, 2) cd /cdrom/dists/src 3) cat ssys* | tar xvzf - -C /usr/src 4) cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. make your own kernel ex:xxx, by copying from GENERIC, do a config xxx, cd ../../compile/xxx, make depend all install. It installs the new kernel ready for booting.