On 2004-05-12 17:35, Jan Christian Meyer wrote: > > MYKERNEL is name of the custom kernel. If you want to build a new > > kernel, you must give it some name, for example MYKERNEL. snip > Just to add a little something for flavor, I've found it useful to > keep my config file elsewhere and use a symbolic link from > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, i.e. snip > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > # ln -s /root/kernel-config/MYKERNEL
FWIW, I keep my kernel configs outside of /usr/src too. diomedes> ls -ld CELERON lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31 May 14 2003 CELERON -> /local/sys/CELERON diomedes> _ > Thus, editing, config and compilation works perfectly by the book, but > if I feel like it, I can nuke /usr/src/sys entirely [...] ... which I promptly went ahead and did once. Only to discover I had also nuked my "precious" (sic) kernel config. That made me think of ways to avoid the same silliness in the future. The symlink was, naturally, the first thought that I came up with :-) - Giorgos _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"