i've scoured the net and haven't found too many items. i found one at princeton and a few things at sun's site, however, i don't find them to my level. they seem to be written for someone who is very comfortable doing what they do.
does anyone know of any good tutorial that is written similar to the FreeBSD handbooks kernel config section?
Not sure what you are looking for since you would not really do the same type of rebuilding of the kernel in Solaris 8 as you would in Freebsd. You can change some parameters but you don't recompile the kernel in Solaris 8. You can check the man page for system (4) for more info.