docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article

[Jason Helfman]

>Number:         140490
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 11 19:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Helfman
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.2
>Organization:
Experts Exchange
>Environment:
FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct  2 12:21:39 UTC 2009     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
Add custom kernel instructions to Releng Article.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- article.sgml.orig	2009-06-24 15:25:26.000000000 -0700
+++ article.sgml	2009-11-11 11:01:26.000000000 -0800
@@ -798,6 +798,17 @@
         should be made bootable so that users of modern PCs do not
         need to create installation floppy disks.</para>
 
+      <para>If a custom kernel of &os; is to be included, then
+        &man.sysinstall.8; and &man.release.7; must be updated to
+        include installation instructions. The relevant code is contained
+        in <filename>src/release</filename> and <filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>.
+        Specifically, the file <filename>src/release/Makefile</filename>, and 
+        <filename>dist.c</filename>, <filename>dist.h</filename>,
+        <filename>menus.c</filename>, <filename>install.c</filename>, and 
+        <filename>Makefile</filename> will need to be updated under
+        <filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>.  Optionally, you may choose 
+        to update <filename>sysinstall.8</filename>.</para>
+
       <para>If an alternate version of &xfree86; is to be provided, then
         &man.sysinstall.8; must be updated to reflect the new location
         and installation instructions. The relevant code is contained


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