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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich 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> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Jul16.232712.2439@ennews.eas.asu.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 22:03:46 GMT Lines: 31 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 --