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Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel
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Chapter 7. Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

Table of Contents
7.1. Synopsis
7.2. Why Build a Custom Kernel?
7.3. Building and Installing a Custom Kernel
7.4. The Configuration File
7.5. Making Device Nodes
7.6. If Something Goes Wrong

7.1. Synopsis

Updated and restructured by Jim Mock , March 2000. Originally contributed by Jake Hamby , 6 October 1995.

The following chapter of the handbook covers everything you will need to know in order to build a custom kernel. If you are wondering what the benefits of a custom kernel are, or would like to know how to configure, compile, and install a custom kernel, this chapter is for you.

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