Building a kernel with config ?

[Miroslav Lachman]

Pete French wrote:

>>On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:42 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>>
>>2. Building a kernel with config is not officially supported. It's at
>>  your risk and may not work in all cases. Build a kernel with:
>>  cd /usr/src
>>  make buildkernel
> 
> 
> I was not aware that you wern't supposed to use config anymore - and I
> am not convinced that the suggested alternative is actually a replacement
> as I thought that buildkernel required you to have built the world first ?
> Is this no longer true ? If it *is* true thhen what is the alternative to
> using 'config' which should be used if you are on a system where you do
> not have the time or the disc space to rebuild the world and simply want
> to recompile the kernel ?


AFAIK you can use make buildkernel && make installkernel  without 
recompiling whole world if you have system built from same sources.

Miroslav Lachman