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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:35:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        "Brandon C. Wood" <bwood@leland.Stanford.EDU>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro/10+ 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970123033439.3858B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199701222136.NAA06143@root.com>

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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >I changed it, but it didn't appear to make any difference.  It's possible I
> >did this wrong, though.  After I changed it, I ran "make if_fxp.c" and
> >rebooted.  Is that right?
> 
>    No. :-) I think there is a kernel build how-to somewhere (perhaps in the
> FAQ?), but basically you need to:

There's a good one in _The Complete FreeBSD_.
 
> 1) cd /sys/i386/conf and copy GENERIC to 'YOURCONFIG'
> 2) edit it and take out anything you know that you don't need
> 3) config 'YOURCONFIG'
> 4) cd /sys/compile/'YOURCONFIG'; make depend; make; make install

Is make depend necessary?  Not knowing about it, for a long time I didn't 
do it, and nothing broke.  (I know that that proves nothing -- that's why 
I'm asking.  :)
 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
> 



 Ben

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