1998.06.29
What is it?
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This utility is taken almost in its entirety from /stand/sysinstall. It allows
to gather device configuration which possibly was changed in userconfig (-c)
session, and to save it to /kernel.config file on startup floppy, so that when
user boots next time, the settings will automatically be changed.
How can I use it?
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The best way is to call it from /etc/rc in such phase when the startup floppy
is mounted, and redirect its output to /kernel.config on the floppy.
NOTE: You need first to create symbols' list, using 'dumpnlist' utility, and
place it in /stand/symbols.
Usage is straightforward:
kget -incore|kernel_name output_filename [vanilla]
In simplest form you can do
kget -incore -
to list current in core parameters, or
kget kernel_file -
to see settings of another kernel.
or
kget -incore - /stand/vanilla
to produce list of changes from 'vanilla' configuration. You can redirect this
list to /kernel.config file with no changes - it already contains required
keywords.
Credits (according to jkh) go to Eric L. Hernes for 95% of this code. The
rest is mine :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
<abial@freebsd.org>
$Id: README,v 1.2 1998/10/25 03:16:02 abial Exp $
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