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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:13:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel configuration manual
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950830221253.16687B-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950829204756.846C-100000@localhost>

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On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Jake Hamby wrote:

> 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!

I'm climbing the same learning curve.  Move this to FreeBSD-doc (the 
correct list for it) then go take a look at /usr/share/sgml, and the 
sgmlfmt man page.

> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Jake Hamby                         |   E-Mail:  jehamby@lightside.com
>   Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona  |   System Administrator, JPL
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 

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