Compile Kernel Question
Robert Slade
bsd at bathnetworks.com
Mon Oct 31 14:13:58 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:35, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that
> the migration should not be too difficult.
>
> The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it
> performs GREAT under heavy loads and many larger ISP are using it
> without fail. In my experience, Linux, although a great OS, seems to bog
> down under heavy loading. I could be wrong though and it could have just
> been to misconfiguration on my part.
>
> Well, I have a base installation of FreeBSD 4.11 which is needed for a
> particular project but now need to compile the kernel to support QUOTA's.
>
> My question is how do I install the sources over the web so that I can
> compile the kernel to support quotas?
>
> The FreeBSD docs tell a little, but mostly assume that you have the
> sources already on the system to compile which I do not have and need to
> download them.
>
> If some one could please give me a little guidance then I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lonnie
Lonnie,
It's is the handbook see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
It tell you how to install the source at the beginning.
Rob
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