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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: kernel names (was: Re: XFree86 fails to initialize core devices)
Date: 22 Sep 1993 13:51:16 +0200
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In article <1993Sep21.194457.10899@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, jack@medstat.med.utah.edu (Jack Jones) writes:
|> Please Help, I just installed FreeBSD on a 386dx with 8m ram.  After installing
|> that I installed the newest version of XFree86 (1.3u1).  I executed the 
|> x386install script which seemed to work, except the 'if grep -s pcprobe /386bsd'

Question: what name is your kernel ?

Comment: I do not see any sophisticated reason (apart from some stupid "we're
being different) for the kernel (and that goes for all derivates of 386bsd,
*including* 386bsd) to have any other name than /vmunix.

That would have saved a lot of trouble, wouldn't it ?

-Bernard