From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 30 19:14:14 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA14930 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:14:14 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14896 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:14:05 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id WAA10919; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:14:00 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id WAA16803; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:14:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:13:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Jake Hamby cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel configuration manual In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: doc-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------