Building The FreeBSD Kernel

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These are my notes from building the FreeBSD 4.x kernel.

- In case the new kernel fails, make a copy of /modules/* and /kernel.
- rm -rf /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKERNCONF
- mkdir -p /usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERNCONF
- cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
- cp GENERIC MYKERNCONF
  Edit MYKERNCONF.
- /usr/sbin/config MYKERNCONF
  You should see:
  "Don't forget to do a ``make depend''"
  "Kernel build directory is ../../compile/MYKERNCONF"
- cd ../../compile/MYKERNCONF
- make depend
- make
- make install
- rm -rf /usr/src/sys/compile (optional cleanup)

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