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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwa.urc.tue.nl!wmbfmk From: wmbfmk@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Compiling a new kernel & getting more PTYs.. Date: 29 Sep 1993 12:12:05 +0100 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <wmbfmk.749300880@rwa.urc.tue.nl> References: <1993Sep28.151005.4100@bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rwa.urc.tue.nl ingmarsl@bcarh136.bnr.ca (Ingmar Slomic) writes: >Hey all, >I just installed FreeBSD v1.0 and Xfree v1.3 on my machine. >The installation was done off a taped archive of the system >a buddy of mine has and I didn't actually have to compile the >thing. >However the pty=4 restriction is ridiculous, especially when >working on a virtual desktop. I tried recompiling the kernel, >and everything seems to go fine EXCEPT that when I try to >boot off it it complains that it is too large (>650k) and >then it proceeds to use the .old version. As far as I can tell the >new kernel is larger by about 100 bytes and it is still only about >550kbytes! I have done that myself without problems, however I also deleted some devices I wasn't using, i.e. the wt driver and the drivers for the networkcards I don't have. If your kernel is still too large, you might try removing the ISOFS option as I understood this takes a large portion off your kernel and is only used when you have a cdrom. BTW I set my pty's to 16. Marc.