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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Some more newbie FreeBSD questions... Date: 27 Nov 1994 22:00:23 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 56 Message-ID: <3bavhn$2fh@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <1994Nov27.140846.124861@slate.mines.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <1994Nov27.140846.124861@slate.mines.colorado.edu>, Ade Barkah <mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu> wrote: >Hola, Terve! Bonjour! Greetings! (Insert your favorite language here!) >1) Which kernel tunable files do I need to modify ? My >familiar /etc/conf/<stuff>.d/ directory doesn't exist. Since we give you source, you have to recompile the kernel from source. A quick&dirty guide: test -e /sys || ln -s usr/src/sys /sys cd /sys/i386/conf cp GENERIC ANYOLDNAMEWILLDO vi ANYOLDNAMEWILLDO (make whatever changes you need; it should be self-explanatory) (documentation is mostly in the LINT configuration file) config ANYOLDNAMEWILLDO cd /sys/compile/ANYOLDNAMEWILLDO make depend && make all && make install reboot >2) "man"ning around the system, I get references to >some /sys/conf... and /sys/i386... files, but they >don't exist as well. I'm downloading the source dists. >Do I need to get all the source distribution to recompile >the kernel ? Unfortunately yes, at the moment. This will be FITNR. >3) What's the command I'm going to use to recompile the >kernel and make sure the /dev entries are correct ? >(ie. the equivalent to svr4's /etc/conf/bin/idbuild.) >Will the "old" kernel be kept as well ? The `install' target in the makefile keeps one old kernel around as /kernel.old. You can always regenerate the original GENERIC using the config file provided. You should not need to fiddle anything in /dev. >4) The DEC machine of course has the DEC depca ethernet >adapter. Is there any support for this card at all ? Yes; it's the `le' device. (See in `LINT' under network interfaces.) >5) Just how badly will my 3c509 behave on the system ? Under heavy loads, it will occasionally hang. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant