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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Bob Ratliff wrote:

> What is the name of the standare FreeBSD 4.4 release kernel?
> I need to configure the mouse. I am reading the faq and my
> kernel.GENERIC seems to not be a binary config file.

It's not. 

Let's clarify:

1.  The standard kernel installed by default is GENERIC, which is called 
``kernel'' in your / directory.  

2.  ``kernel.GENERIC'' IS a compiled, ready-to-boot kernel.  

3.  If you want to build a new kernel, you need the kernel sources, aka 
the ``sys'' distribution.  If you did not install this, you can fetch it 
from ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*.  Download 
into a directory, su to root, cd /usr/src, cat ssys.* | tar xzf - to 
install the sources; then go into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, copy LINT to 
MYKERNEL (or whatever you want to call it), and modify as you wish.  Your 
new kernel config will be in flat text.

4.  cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend && make, copy kernel to /, 
reboot, and have fun :)  See the Handbook for more info.

5.  FreeBSD uses a version scheme departed from the Berkley numbers, so 
the current release is 2.1.  

Hope this helps, and sorry if I went overboard :)  You sound like you 
know about rebuilding kernels, but not the FreeBSD way.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major