From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 13:34:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1AF37BAC6 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5A2; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:36:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3974BEBF.A5D0A275@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:31:59 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have a question about compiling the kernal References: <4.1.20000718120401.01b03100@pop.alink.net> <20000718122251.A5244@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Mock wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 at 12:05:15 -0700, Andrew Marentis wrote: > > How do I compile a kernel and what does it do ? what is the best way > > to go about it ? > > Start by reading the handbook.. it's all explained there. > http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ The above question and response are a classic textbook case on the previous discussion on "newbies versus snobbery". I don't want to pick on Andrew, because the question is indeed genuine. But the FreeBSD Handbook has all of the answers, and those answers are easy to find. And this Handbook comes with each and every CD and ISO image of the operating system. Are some people actually expecting folks to cut and paste three or four pages out of the Handbook and posting that to the list, when that very same information is already on the questioneers computer? Jim's response is most certainly NOT snobbery. It's much, much better than saying "RTFM". In my opinion, it shows a remarkable amount of patience. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message