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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:18:12 +0530 (IST)
From:      eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan)
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan)
Subject:   URGENT help needed
Message-ID:  <9710280848.AA17647@pelican.isd>

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Hi,

I want to know how to build Free BSD source. I saw Free BSD handbook
which says that couple of "make" commands will do the job. But, when
I tried to build Free BSD 4.4 Lite 2 source, it gave lot of problems.

Somehow, I could satisfy the compiler by fixing all the defects. But,
the system is not coming up ;-(

My questions are:

1. What is the procedure I need to follow for building a Free BSD kernel
   source so that I can boot with my kernel ?

2. I am having Free BSD 4.4 Lite 2 soure. Is it possible to build this
   source (kernel source) to have a customized kernel ?

3. Also, if I want to change only a specific driver (say SCSI tape driver),
   is it possible to build only that particular driver (without building
   the complete kernel source) and create a ".o" (equivalent to Driver.o
   on SVR4 or compatible systems) and integrate it with the kernel ?

   I am new to Free BSD (from SVR4 Unix platforms) and looked for 
   /etc/conf/pack.d directory structure on my Free BSD system. Oops !
   I could not find one such directory.

   Anyone out there to teach me how to do this ?

Any pointers to Web pages are also good enough ...

Will really appreciate your efforts/help.

Thanks
- Eswaran Srinivasan

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