Dear All,
More newby questions.  Well having located everything I made dumb assumption
number 1.  THis was if I went config GENERIC I would get a build tree that
would give me the generic kernel.  I got a list of syntax errors as follows:


../../../conf/files:76: syntax error
../../../conf/files:77: syntax error
../../../conf/files:112: syntax error
../../../conf/files:177: syntax error
../../../conf/files:190: syntax error
../../../conf/files:205: syntax error
../../../conf/files:246: syntax error
../../../conf/files:248: syntax error
../../../conf/files:249: syntax error
../../../conf/files:250: syntax error
../../../conf/files:251: syntax error
../../../conf/files:253: syntax error
../../../conf/files:254: syntax error
../../../conf/files:255: syntax error
../../../conf/files:256: syntax error
../../../conf/files:257: syntax error
../../../conf/files:258: syntax error
../../../conf/files:259: syntax error
../../../conf/files:260: syntax error
../../../conf/files:261: syntax error
../../../conf/files:262: syntax error
../../../conf/files:263: syntax error
../../../conf/files:278: syntax error
../../../conf/files:280: syntax error
../../../conf/files:282: syntax error
../../../conf/files:283: syntax error
../../../conf/files:286: syntax error
../../../conf/files:287: syntax error
../../../conf/files:288: syntax error
../../../conf/files:289: syntax error
../../../conf/files:290: syntax error
../../../conf/files:291: syntax error
../../../conf/files:292: syntax error
../../../conf/files:306: syntax error
../../../conf/files:307: syntax error
../../../conf/files:308: syntax error
../../../conf/files:309: syntax error
../../../conf/files:310: syntax error
../../../conf/files:311: syntax error
../../../conf/files:312: syntax error
*** Stop.

Now I guess that I must go and edit sys/conf/files but what to? and what
bits need changing.  With a bit of inspired thinking I copied files.vax
from the arch/vax/conf dir into sys/conf and tried again.  I get a load of 
syntax errors (similar to above) followed by a load of "device yz used
but not defined".

I assume that this means that the files file must be edited to match the
machine file.  Where now?.

Cheers

Robin