From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 22:33:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA14646 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from citytel1.citytel.net (root@citytel1.citytel.net [204.244.99.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA14639 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (citytelprct48.citytel.net [204.244.99.124]) by citytel1.citytel.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04352; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to upgrade 2.2.5-R from 2.2.2-R? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > > You should really have the kernel source installed. You don't need the > entire thing, but the src/ssys dist is key for configuring your system > optimally. > > It's not that big, and is worth it's weight in gold. > > If you really don't want to, you can copy /kernel.GENERIC over /kernel. > Note that you'll need to chflags nouchg before you'll be able to copy > over /kernel. > Thanks, I intalled the sys dir via: ./install.sh sys from the cd. What is the difference between lint and generic? Does it have any bearing when making a new kernal? Also in the renamed Generic file, bascially I just comment out the parts in it that I dont have on my system, correct? Ive been following the handbook on this but just want to make sure. thanks, Keith