Please respond directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not on this mailing list.. I am hoping that this is not something I am doing wrong ... the procedur ei followed was cvsup src and ports... using supfile in handbook for going to current.. from there i did /usr/src make buildworld then make installworld and ffom there i did make buildkernel KERNEL=GENERIC and then make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC and i get the following errors.. please help as I am itching to get this resolved... make installkernel KERNEL=GENERIC cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj COMPILER_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/lib OBJFORMAT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec PERL5LIB=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libdata/perl/5.6.0 MACHINE=i386 make KERNEL=kernel install You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. Thanks in advance... raymond hicks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message