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From: salb@pc2213.gud.siemens.co.at (Bernd Salbrechter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 upgrade questions
Date: 3 Jan 1996 15:53:27 GMT
Organization: Siemens AG Austria
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Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@rek.tjls.com) wrote:
: In article <4cc2tg$jrr@msunews.cl.msu.edu>,
: David W Wieringa <wieringa@cps.msu.edu> wrote:
: >[ Article crossposted from comp.unix.bsd.misc ]
: >[ Author was K.T. Wieringa ]
: >[ Posted on Mon, 1 Jan 96 23:25:59 CST ]
: >
: >
: >Doing the 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade thing (i386) and have run into the following
: >snags:
I started also to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 and will make a custom kernel and
have some questions on that.
[stuff deleted]
:
: I don't know if the generic swap code handles two swap partitions correctly;
: I could go look, but I'd guess it doesn't. So you probably need a custom
: kernel configuration to swap on two disks. From comments below, it looks like
: you're running one of the INSTALL kernels, which is probably the cause of a
: number of your problems. Those kernels are only meant to get you up and
: running; you need to run one of the GENERIC kernels or build your own.
From the FAQ I know that I should add only things I realy need. The
config-files, which come with the distribution document very good, which
feature the enable in the kernel. But I have very little knowlage, which
of the features I need for which application.
Now the specific questions on the options:
1. Do I need the TCP_COMPAT_42, if I run XFree-3.1?
2. Can I savely remove the MFS (memory file system)?
3. Is DDB (the in-kernel debuger) only usefull to develop kernel moduls?
4. Should I switch on DIAGNOSTIC?
and on the devices:
5. Should I remove additional devices of a type, if I have one of that type?
i.e. If I have only lpt0 should I remove lpt1 and lpt2?
6. Should I replace the * ? lines whith line, which have the right value
there?
Till now I have succesfully installed all the NetBSD1.1 stuff and I am working
on the custom kernel. The first build of the kernel failed because of
undefined symbols when linking. I gusse that I should leave at least one
enthernet card in the configuration or remove something more, which will my
next steps in research, if I finde the time to continue :-).
Congatulations to the good work I am using NetBSD since Version 0.9 on a
standalone PC whithout any serious problem and a release update evry year
is quite ok, even I miss the posibility to format disks.
Thank you for reading
Bernd