From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 1:27:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3E137B699; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA14914; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:27:04 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200101180927.WAA14914@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary / FreshPorts To: "Donald J . Maddox" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:27:04 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: too much confusion over kernel building Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20010118042437.A41992@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> References: <20010118091839.7C8D13E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:18:34AM -0800 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jan 2001, at 4:24, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > I agree. Frankly, there is no reason I can think of where the use of > buildkernel/installkernel would be in any meaningful way superior to > the old method *except* in the case of a toolchain upgrade that requires > new tools to build the new source. There is the added advantage that the "new" method involves fewer steps. And That Is A Good Thing (tm), especially for people new to FreeBSD. If they get get a kernel to compile and work the first time, without problems, it gives them a *big* boost. The few steps, the hard to mess up. cheers -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message