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From: mike@mallard.demon.co.uk (Mike Zanker)
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Subject: Error in TROUBLESHOOTING
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:13:33 +0000
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I've just installed FreeBSD 2.0 on my 8MB 486DX2-66, allowing it
to use the whole of my second IDE drive, a 163MB IBM WDA-L160.
I've partitioned this as 147 assigned to / and 16 as swap, having
decided not to make separate partitions for /usr, etcetara.
Having installed FreeBSD on the second hard drive I read the
relevant section in TROUBLESHOOTING about entering hd(1,a)/kernel
at the boot prompt but this resulted in a "panic: cannot mount
root device" message. Through a bit of trial and error I
discovered that this is incorrect and it should read
wd(1,a)/kernel
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this but I thought it may
help any newcomers who are having the same problem.
Anyway, I've installed the bindist and manpages distributions and
everything is running very nicely. I intend to install both XFree
3.1 and TeX, but this isn't going to leave me enough space for
the source distribution. However, I really would like to tailor
the kernel to my own taste (something I do whenever I install
Linux) so is it possible for me to install *just* the kernel
sources?
Alternatively, can I mount the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM
(when it's finally released :) and use the source tree on that
with just the kernel sources on my hard disk?
Finally, just a couple more questions. I discovered a uk keymap
file and have installed it with kbdcontrol. Will XFree 3.1 notice
this and also use a UK keymap?
...and where is adduser? I can see an adduser.sh file but it only
seems to try and add "guest".
All replies/followups will be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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