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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernel build after add_pkg Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:43:01 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3362BD35.4328@OntheNet.com.au> References: <BD270BD78C783E2D.2B44D2423A9E740E.DF87EF37A8AE9CDA@library-proxy.airnews.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Charlie Root <root@cyber-services.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39814 Charlie Root wrote: > > Question: When I installed FreeBSD 2.1.7, without the /usr/src/sys > directory, the kernal source parameter file that built > the original kernel (now kernel.old) was saved somewhere > (I hope). You may hope in vain... If it ain't in that directory and you didn't save it some else, then it ain't nowhere! > > Where is this file storred so I can substitute it for the > current /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file? Using the GENERIC config file as a starting point, you "should" be able to customise a config file for your particular box. This presumes that you know what is in your box!!! If you don't, then boot up using the old kernel (kernel.old) and take note of what is being probed and the results (Port/IRQ/??? etc.) and use this info to generate the customised config file... Tony