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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml,v 1.28 2000/06/14 00:47:35 jim Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml,v 1.29 2000/07/15 09:38:36 alex Exp $
-->
<chapter id="kernelconfig">
@@ -129,7 +129,10 @@
<note>
<para>Be sure to always check the file
<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>, before you perform any update
- steps! In this file all important issues with updating FreeBSD
+ steps, in the case you <link
+ linkend="cutting-edge">sync your source-tree</link> with the
+ latest sources of the FreeBSD project.
+ In this file all important issues with updating FreeBSD
are written down. <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename> always fits
to your version of the FreeBSD source, and is therefore more accurate
for those information than the handbook.</para>
@@ -137,7 +140,10 @@
<para>When you are finished, type the following to compile and install
your kernel if you are using FreeBSD prior FreeBSD 4.0 and don't
- want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step.</para>
+ want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step,
+ or if you are using a release-version of FreeBSD and your
+ <filename>/usr/src/</filename> directory only contains the
+ <filename>sys/</filename> sub-directory.</para>
<note>
<para>If you are trying to upgrade your kernel from an older version
@@ -156,7 +162,7 @@
<para>For FreeBSD 4.x or later (or upgrading from FreeBSD 3.x to
FreeBSD 4.x or higher), use the following commands (be sure you
- have built world before!):</para>
+ have <link linkend="cutting-edge">built world</link> before!):</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL</userinput>