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diff --git a/release/picobsd/tinyware/kget/README b/release/picobsd/tinyware/kget/README index 9490dd747969..2acc5ea552d3 100644 --- a/release/picobsd/tinyware/kget/README +++ b/release/picobsd/tinyware/kget/README @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ -1999.01.06 +1998.06.29 What is it? ----------- -This utility 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. - -This program uses sysctl(3) interface to retrieve data from the kernel - -the machdep.uc_devlist sysctl was added Jan 5 1999 to 3.0-current. +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? ----------------- @@ -17,25 +14,34 @@ How can I use it? 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. -Usage is straightforward: +NOTE: You need first to create symbols' list, using 'dumpnlist' utility, and +place it in /stand/symbols. - kget output_filename +Usage is straightforward: -where output_filename is either regular file (then it's created or -overwritten), or a "-" meaning standard output. + kget -incore|kernel_name output_filename [vanilla] In simplest form you can do - kget - + kget -incore - + +to list current in core parameters, or + + kget kernel_file - + +to see settings of another kernel. + +or -to list current in-core parameters, or + kget -incore - /stand/vanilla - kget /kernel.config +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. -to produce list of changes from 'vanilla' configuration and write -it to /kernel.config file - it already contains required keywords. +Credits go to Jordan K. Hubbard for 95% of this code. The rest is mine :-) Andrzej Bialecki -<abial@freebsd.org> +<abial@nask.pl> -$Id: README,v 1.3 1998/11/01 20:19:40 abial Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.2 1998/08/11 06:53:21 abial Exp $ |