Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:46:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: "Tomlinson, Drew" <Drew.Tomlinson@lc.ca.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie - Docs Explaining System Upgrade and Recompiling Kernel Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009051343130.27709-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C49E0@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Tomlinson, Drew wrote: > 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. > There is a book "The complete FreeBSD", where you can find FreeBSD specific topics. Many Unix topics (not really FreeBSD specific) can be found in various books out there. There are books on using Make. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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