> 
> 
> I grabbed the current kernel tarfile, and untarred it.  Yikes.  105% of
> my zip . . .  I removed the extra architectures & the tarfile, and back
> donw to 24%.
> 
> Anyway, it doesn't/can't install at /; the top level in the tar is src/
> 
> And I'm back to the problem of relative pathnames:
> 
> 
> 
> hawkins# pwd
> /usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/conf
> hawkins# config GENERIC
> GENERIC:5: cannot open arch/mac68k/conf/std.mac68k for reading: No such file or directory
> 
> GENERIC:7: syntax error
> GENERIC:7: cannot proceed without machine specifier
> hawkins# 
> 
> there must be something simple i'm missing.  

Have you compiled the most recent version of config? It often drifts with
the source, so you need to keep up. :-)

> After gunzipping sys.tar.gz, in /usr/src, i cd'd to /usr, and "tar -xvf
> /usr/src/sys.tar" 

That works, but you can also say "tar xvzf sys.tar.gz" and it will unzip
on the fly.

Take care,

Bill