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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Kernel Building.
In-Reply-To: berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu's message of Thu, 16 Jul 1992 23:27:12 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.92Jul18160346@kappa.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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References: <1992Jul16.232712.2439@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 22:03:46 GMT
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In article <1992Jul16.232712.2439@ennews.eas.asu.edu> berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Joel R. Berry) writes:
Hello All,
I checked the FAQ and saw no mention about what to do after
one compile the 386bsd system. I used config and created a machine
configuration which matched my current machine. I did a config
MACHINE and all was well. I went into /sys/compile/MACHINE and
did a make depend ( I applied the make depend bug fixes earlier ) and
proceeded to do a make. Now I have this wonderful 386bsd file which
until now i have been moing into the / directory. Is this how it is
done? I moving from a System V environment where the kernel configs
were done by a program "kconfig". These usually created the
kernel environment for you. Is there a book which will show
me how to do this. In particular I need /dev/com2 to show up. I
dont know what to do. Do I mkdev with the approp. numbers? Any help
would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
joel berry
berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
Ready-to-print PostScript files for each section of the net2 system
maintainer's manual are on nova.cc.purdue.edu in
pub/386bsd/submissions/bsd.manuals.
smm.02.config.ps.Z describes kernel configuration for the vax, however
some of it is relevant to 386BSD. There is no freely available
rewrite for 386BSD that I know of.
More specificly, for /dev/com2 you might look at the MAKEDEV script
which is generated when you configure the kernel. Ideally, it should
have a mknod command with the appropriate numbers for each device.
Rich
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