From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Aug 29 20:52:43 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA07171 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:52:43 -0700 Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user52.lightside.com [198.81.209.52]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07161 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:52:35 -0700 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01401; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:52:47 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:52:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Kernel configuration manual Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: doc-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a new user to FreeBSD but I have about two years Linux/SunOS experience so I picked it up really quickly. I'd like to help the FreeBSD team but since I'm not really a kernel hacker, I'd like to work on the documentation instead (which is currently pretty skeletal)... Anyway, the current Users Guide is very sketchy on what options to change to build a custom kernel. All it says is: cp GENERIC MYKERNEL vi MYKERNEL ... That's it?!? If I hadn't built a custom kernel under SunOS and had only my Linux experience (where you type 'make config' and it holds your hand through the procedure) I would be completely lost! Anyway I'd like to announce my intention of writing a quick guide to custom kernel building. I just need to know what format to send it in (SGML?) and who to send it to. Thanks in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------