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Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 2002 05:49:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make kernel KERNCONF=
Message-ID:  <20020615054349.X86561-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020614172329.C6577-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>

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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, FreeBSD user wrote:

> Newbie question, how do I build a new kernel and put it at a place and
> name that I specify rather than always to /kernel? Ie.,
>
> cd /usr/src && make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC OUTPUT=/kernel.GENERIC
>
> In another words, I don't want /kernel to be overwritten. Thanks in
> advance.
Your old kernel isn't overwritten. It will be safed as
/kernel.old
so you can boot it in case your new kernel doesn't work.
If you wish to collect old kernels you could call them
/kernel25
/kernel26
etc.

Regards,

Uli.

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