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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple 1.1.5.1 questions
Date: 15 Aug 94 16:56:45
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 15 Aug 94 12:04:30 PST
In article <jwshin.776981070@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin) writes:
* 1) Xfree86 2.1.1 says it won't load MIT-SHM extention because the kernel
* doesn't support it. Is there anyway I can get a kernel with support,
* since shared-memory is very essential in my programs.
You need to recompile a kernel with that option. Go to
/sys/i386/conf, make a copy of GENERICAH or GENERICBT (choose one
according to your SCSI card) and edit it. Then do config
MYKERNELNAME; cd /sys/compile/MYKERNELNAME; make depend and then make.
(You can find a ROADMAP file in /sys for more info.) I found this in
the 386BSD FAQ, if you are wondering.
Even if you don't need shared memory (that's option SYSVSHM, by the
way), you probably want to recompile a kernel for yourself. Seeing
your machine say "FreeBSD 1.1.5.1(JINWOO)" when it boots gives you
that warm cozy feeling that you have a kernel of your own, something
that's different from everybody else in the world.... :)
* 2) Is there something like dip so I don't have to use kermit to connect?
* Is tip what I can use?
If you really hate kermit, I guess. Or you can use cu, but I have
never tried it. I know just a little about tip, but it's very little
because all I did with tip was to download kermit. ;)
* 3) Related, when I put "set line tty01" in kermit, it always pauses
* indefinately.
* I usually cntr-c out of it and other lines works fine, but it's a bit
* annoying.
You should do "set line cua01" instead, that's the name of the dialout
device. If it's missing, then cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV cua01. Your tty01
will be gone, use ttyd1 for dialin/mouse and cua01 for dialout.
* 4) I have Mitsumi FX001D drive. kernel seem to (I have stock ah stock)
* recognize at boot, but I can't mount it. I tried mount, mount_isofs,
* mount_mfs with no avail.
The Mitsumi driver is called mcd. I forgot the option to mount it.
* 5) I've installed bindist and srcdist. Srcdist doesn't seem to have
* much source, and especially, where is the kernel source and
* recompile/reconfigure docs?
Kernel source is in /usr/src/sys, or /sys (a symlink). Docs are
around there too. There is a LINT kernel config file that describes
all the options.
* 6) I've downloaded secrdist. Is this needed?
Recommended, at least. Just extract and forget about it, my machine
is running fine that way. :)
Satoshi