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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: ernie@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NE driver problem, first time user. Date: 31 Mar 1993 10:04:16 -0800 Organization: Woody - Public Access Unix - Melbourne Lines: 59 Message-ID: <1pcmf0$3e5@woody.apana.org.au> References: <peter.486.733460436@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au> X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Peter R. Tattam (peter@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au) wrote: : I booted the floppy ok, but when I did an 'ifconfig' of the ne0 network : driver, I kept getting some kind of debug message all the time when packets : were received. ..... : I don't have enough space to rebuild the kernel.. I only installed it on an : 80Mb partition on my 200M hard drive. It is my understanding that I need a : full distribution to apply the patch kits. Am I correct here? If so, I am : stuck until I get a larger disk to apply the patches. : : Peter : The message you got was probably the startstartstart strings each time a packet came through. That is a feature of the dist.fs shipped binary. There is a later version of the distfs disk that does not do it I have forgotten if it was on kirk.bu.oz.au or agate.berkeley.edu have a look on both. Otherwise recompiling the kernel will fix it. As for space I only have a 120MB drive and I have bin01 src01 and Xfree1.2 with some other things like sendmail 5.67IDA and Pine and Inn1.3 sources. The way I did it was to install bin01 then src01 which should just fit on the 80MB drive you have. Then I got the patchkit 2.2 and applied that. Then I went through the source directories and archived each source I found that the patchkit had not patched. ie when the patchkit does its work the un-modified file gets a .pl1 suffix or sometimes .pl2, .pl3 depending on the number of patches applied. So say I found that the sendmail source was not patched I did a cd to /usr/src/usr.sbin tar cvpf sendmail.tar sendmail then compressed the resulting sendmail.tar file compress sendmail.tar ( or gzip sendmail.tar) (I use gzip cause it makes smaller files) then I did a /bin/rm -r /usr/src/usr.bin/sendmail and ended up with some more space. So you keep doing that until you have enough free space to recompile the patched files and kernel or what ever. Took me about 30min. The only hassle is when you get the next patchkit you have to read all the readme files to see which programs you have to un-archive before appling the patchkit. A small price to pay if you are out of disk space :) Hope this helps - Ernie.