From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 18:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05894 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05889 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup611.serv.net [207.207.65.11]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA18424; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980615182636.007f2450@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:26:36 -0700 To: David Wolfskill From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: Making a new kernel Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806151403.HAA20850@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, what *I* meant by "go at it wholeheartedly without restraint" is that it's really impossible to ruin your system or make it difficult/confusing to recover by building a kernel that doesn't work (at least under FreeBSD... other *nixes are not so forgiving). Just typing 'kernel.GENERIC' (no quotes) at the Boot: prompt and hit ENTER, then have another go at it makes it simple and nearly foolproof. In fact, it's safer than using the system upgrade option in /stand/sysinstall - FAR safer. *THAT* utility scares me. I hope the 3.0 release has some improvements to the system upgrade section. It messes up /etc far too often, and I've taken to gzipping my entire /etc directory and copying it elsewhere (including doing directories one by one, by hand, if need be) before using it. At 07:03 AM 6/15/98 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >Which is what I meant by "restraint" -- "read up on it first" (vs. "don't >do it at all"). > >I presumed that folks would be learning.... > >david >-- >David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator >dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message