From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 22:54:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA16389 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16382 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I067NEFYR400AU8C@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:55:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:55:54 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Recompiling Kernel with Live File System To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I067NEGI1E00AU8C@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"questions@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I would like to recompile the kernel (generic) on my office machine (2.0.5), but I did not install the kernel souces and I don't think there's enough space (maybe 25 mb) to do so. There's a usr/src directory, but nothing in it. If I created /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and copyied the generic kernel to that location and edited the file, could I then use to configure and compile it: /cdrom/usr/bin/config NEWKERNEL and then instead of cd ../../compile/NEWKERNEL /cdrom/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWKERNEL to compile it? Then perhaps make and make install in /cdrom/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/make, maybe adding the path to NEWKERNEL on the hard drive? Doesn't sound like this will work, but maybe there's a way. Thanks Annelise