I just copied my active kernel to my home and tried it: it does 
seem to find *something*.

(paul@green.paulbeard.org)-(09:48 AM / Thu Mar 14)
[/usr/home/paul]:: ls -l netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 paul  users  3051140 Mar 14 09:48 netbsd
(paul@green.paulbeard.org)-(09:48 AM / Thu Mar 14)
[/usr/home/paul]:: ls -l /netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3406917 Feb 13 14:43 /netbsd
(paul@green.paulbeard.org)-(09:48 AM / Thu Mar 14)


Tracy Nelson wrote:

> 
> I meant edit the config file (as in "stripping out all the drivers and
> options I don't want").  I wasn't aware that strip(1) would find anything in
> an executable that was compiled with optimization.  Shows what I know, I
> guess...
> 
> Cheers!
> -- Tracy Nelson
> 
> 
> 


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