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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.cais.com!news From: kevin graham <kgraham@ahoynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: learning freebsd... Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:13:21 -0400 Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31A4F111.3AD@ahoynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pin158.ahoynet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) I'm still entirely green with freebsd, having come from the realm of windows nt/95... in any case, i have a successful installation and have been trying for several days now to rebuild the kernel.. the system is an intel486/66 with 12mb ram and a single ide disk (325mb)... along with a 1.44 floppy, 3c5x9 ethernet adapter, 2 serial/1 parallel, and a vga card that's it.. it will eventually be used as a web server.. however, it seems whenever i try to compile the kernel (following instructions in the 'intro to freebsd'), while runing make in /usr/src/sys/compile/mykernel, it crashes on errors at seemingly random spots (the same source set run twice in a row may very well crash at two different spots)... i even tried compiling /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and had error... any ideas? on another note, i also have had no luck getting the ethernet card clicking... its setup at 300h/irq10 both phyically and in the os, with (a presumable) ip address of 192.168.0.1 ... no luck at all on pinging into or out of the thing.... once again... could someone spin me towards the right corner? tia.. ..kg.. http://www.ahoynet.com/~kgraham