Thank you, Andrew, clicketyclick - all source code gone now, and the config file is saved.
Can you please tell me about the issue with freebsd-update. Does it mean if I run: #freebsd-update fetch #freebsd-update install - it will overwrite my self compiled kernel? Good to know indeed! Cheers herb langhans On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:37:37AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > On Sun 2009-10-04 15:15:05 UTC+0200, herbert langhans > ([email protected]) wrote: > > > I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont want to > > carry all the kernel sources around there. > > > > Is it ok just to #rm the content of the /usr/src directory? And will I > > get it completely back from sysinstall or the FreeBSD-servers? Or is > > there a more elegant solution on FreeBSD? > > This should be fine. > > Since you've built a custom kernel you may want to keep a copy of > your kernel build config ("LINT") file, eg. /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/HOSTNAME. > > Note that you can't use freebsd-update to patch a custom (non-GENERIC) > kernel. > > You can restore the kernel source code by extracting the ssys.?? > binaries (normally found in the /src/ directory, eg. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/src/ ) > using install.sh (found in the same directory). Probably also with > sysinstall, but I don't recall the steps to do that. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 603 341 441 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
