From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 16:38:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA26422 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26417 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id ad28328; 20 Jul 96 0:29 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26554; 19 Jul 96 23:37 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA03733; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 20:34:10 GMT Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 20:34:10 GMT Message-Id: <199607192034.UAA03733@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: tjfs@tadpole.co.uk CC: davidg@root.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607191325.OAA29058@sirius.tadpole.co.uk> (message from Tim Steele on Fri, 19 Jul 1996 14:25:08 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: Great stuff so far Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Tim Steele writes: [snip - sorry, I don't know anything about 3COM cards] > As far as reconfiguring the kernel is concerned, as this is my first > install I don't have a running BSD system to compare it with, so I > guess I can't do that. There's instructions on doing this in the Handbook (at http://www.freebsd.org/, or in file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html if you ever get your system up :-) > Any chance of supporting the 3C589 in a future release? or can I do > this myself by constructing a new install disk (once I've got it working)? Building your own install disk is possible, although not quite as simple as it might sound - you basically need to install the complete source, "make world" and then "make release" in the appropriate directory (this takes up a lot of disk space!) Going back to one of your earlier questions, the very minimum I would recommend is the binaries (mandatory), manpages, kernel source (ssys.* in the src distribution) and, if desired, the X distribution. HTH -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/