Upgrading to 6.2 stable - failed to compile kernel

FreeBSD Noob freebsd_stable_200609 at happy-fish.co.uk
Mon Sep 25 23:02:19 PDT 2006


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:09:26 +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski
<freebsd at chillt.de> wrote:

>Your MINIMUM_PPS file contains the entire kernel configuration and 
>unless you want to tweak additional options (compiler flags and 
>optimization settings for example), there is no need to modify make.conf.
That's a relief.  I must go and check.. I have a feeling, I didn't
actually see a make.conf file.

>If a kernel takes hours, a buildworld could be a few days... you must be using a 
>very slow machine. A kernel build on my Centrino 1.6GHz takes only a few 
>minutes.
Yes, it's an AMD5x86 runing at 120 MHz!  Once I learned how to do some
of these things the simple way, I may try running the buildworld and
buildkernel for this machine on a faster machine.


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