Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:31:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Bob Ratliff <ratliff@fastlane.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greetings Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960128202632.4291F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <310BECA3.5D7F@fastlane.net>
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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
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