From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 12:17: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBCD37B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1DKGBt07113; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:16:11 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:16:11 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Rob Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting my box through its paces... make world?!? Message-ID: <20010214091611.D5731@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rob@robhulme.com on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:12:14PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:12:14PM -0000, Rob wrote: [...] > I'm quite new to FreeBSD - but can I just: > > cd /usr/src > buildworld > > If I do this - it won't actually change any of the configuration of my > system will it? It won't replace any files (the kernel, etc...) - all it > will do is rebuild the source (but not install it) - right? It should be: make buildworld but you're correct, that will only build stuff, not install it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message