Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:52:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: MrBoboo <mrboboo@home.com>, freebsd net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kernel thing Message-ID: <20000903135225.C18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000903122506.U72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:25:06PM %2B0100 References: <001f01c0156e$1da7dca0$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com> <20000903122506.U72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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* Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> [000903 04:34] wrote: > MrBoboo wrote: > > > is there a way to view the settings or configuration for the curent > > kernel that is running instead of making a kernel from scratch, i just > > want to change some lines in my current one, is there a way to do > > that??? basically do a CP of the current to a new file name perhaps > > MYKERNEL, then edit MYKERNEL and then you know the rest > > Have you ever built your own kernel before? If you've never built > a kernel before, your kernel will be based on the GENERIC kernel > configuration file in /sys/i386/conf. If you check the LINT kernel you'll see an option: # This allows you to actually store this configuration file into # the kernel binary itself, where it may be later read by saying: # strings -n 3 /kernel | sed -n 's/^___//p' > MYKERNEL # options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel that ought to help. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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