Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:41:09 -0700 From: "Tomlinson, Drew" <Drew.Tomlinson@lc.ca.gov> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Newbie - Docs Explaining System Upgrade and Recompiling Kernel Message-ID: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C49E0@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello All, I am very new to both Unix and FreeBSD but I have a lot of DOS and OpenVMS experience. I have been reading all I can find on the Web and have found the Handbook section on "Creating a Custom Kernel". I have followed the directions using the config, compile, make depend, make, make install format. However, I have no idea what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm running "FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 20 22:50:22 GMT 2000" as reported from dmesg and would like to upgrade to the new 4.1 release. Any reference to documentation that would explain how to upgrade or recompile a kernel in simple, newbie terms would be appreciated. Thanks, Drew [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>Newbie - Docs Explaining System Upgrade and Recompiling Kernel</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello All,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>I am very new to both Unix and FreeBSD but I have a lot of DOS and OpenVMS experience. I have been reading all I can find on the Web and have found the Handbook section on "Creating a Custom Kernel". I have followed the directions using the config, compile, make depend, make, make install format. However, I have no idea what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. </FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm running "FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 20 22:50:22 GMT 2000" as reported from dmesg and would like to upgrade to the new 4.1 release. Any reference to documentation that would explain how to upgrade or recompile a kernel in simple, newbie terms would be appreciated.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Drew</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>
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