> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:54:23PM -0500, Aaron Martinez wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:13:35PM -0500, Aaron Martinez wrote: >> >> I'm running 4.4 Stable on i386 hardware and was wanting to make a >> >> release. >> >> >> >> I was reading through the release man page and noticed it said a >> GENERIC >> >> kernel is included with the release. I'm just wondering if there is >> a >> >> way >> >> to include or replace the generic kernel with a modified kernel. The >> >> only >> >> change i'm making is adding NTFS read support. >> > >> > I'm a little unclear; are you talking about release(8), or just having >> > a kernel with NTFS support? >> >> yes, release(8). So at the beginning of the release, i update my >> sources, >> rebuild the kernel, with the one mod for ntfs support, rebuild userland >> and then do a release. I'm wondering if there is any way to get the >> ntfs >> enabled kernel into the "release". >> >> could i just copy my running /bsd /bsd.rd and /boot files into the >> reldir >> and create my release cd to install that way? > > From a quick reading of release(8) and src/etc/Makefile, it looks like > make release pulls the kernel from the running system into the generated > release.
I thought that as well, but when i installed from the newly created release cd, I wasn't able to mount ntfs partitions. I went back to my build machine and diff'ed /bsd and /usr/rel/bsd and they are different.. is that to be expected? $ diff bsd /bsd Binary files bsd and /bsd differ Thanks, Aaron > >> >> Thanks again. >> >> Aaron >> > >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> Aaron
