From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 03:52:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA24647 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from picspc01.pics.com ([192.135.189.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA24639 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.135.189.21] (picsnt01.pics.com [192.135.189.21]) by picspc01.pics.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id GAA23364; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:52:03 -0500 Message-Id: <199601291152.GAA23364@picspc01.pics.com> To: Doug White , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: greetings Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 06:49:08 -0500 From: Terry Rossi X-Mailer: E-Mail Connection v2.5.03 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk -- [ From: Terry Rossi * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- Doug, Thanks for this informative message, I just wanted to point out that in step #3 the tar command needs to have the z option. i.e.: cat ssys* |tar -zxvf - Thanks Again! Terry -------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- Date: Sunday, 28-Jan-96 08:31 PM From: Doug White \ Internet: (dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu) To: Bob Ratliff \ Internet: (ratliff@fastlane.net) cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG \ Internet: (questions@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: greetings On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Bob Ratliff wrote: > What is the name of the standare FreeBSD 4.4 release kernel? > I need to configure the mouse. I am reading the faq and my > kernel.GENERIC seems to not be a binary config file. It's not. Let's clarify: 1. The standard kernel installed by default is GENERIC, which is called ``kernel'' in your / directory. 2. ``kernel.GENERIC'' IS a compiled, ready-to-boot kernel. 3. If you want to build a new kernel, you need the kernel sources, aka the ``sys'' distribution. If you did not install this, you can fetch it from ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*. Download into a directory, su to root, cd /usr/src, cat ssys.* | tar xzf - to install the sources; then go into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, copy LINT to MYKERNEL (or whatever you want to call it), and modify as you wish. Your new kernel config will be in flat text. 4. cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend && make, copy kernel to /, reboot, and have fun :) See the Handbook for more info. 5. FreeBSD uses a version scheme departed from the Berkley numbers, so the current release is 2.1. Hope this helps, and sorry if I went overboard :) You sound like you know about rebuilding kernels, but not the FreeBSD way. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -------- REPLY, End of original message --------