Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:45:01 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please be nice to the newbie.... Message-ID: <3B59F7DD.5CB401EF@iowna.com> References: <20010721111339.B75328-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20010721182504.L857-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> <20010721111339.B75328-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010721140325.03534e40@mail.blarg.net>
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"Derek C." wrote: > > Hello all, I am new to FreeBSD, and I am about to embark on my first > FreeBSD kernel compile. I am very familiar with the kernel build process in > linux, but FreeBSD appears to be a very different animal in that respect. > > So, what I am asking, is there any advice that you would care to impart to > this FreeBSD newbie (aside from RTFM, which I have done... FreeBSD's docs > kick butt)? 1) Follow the handbook exactly. 2) If the kernel doesn't compile, delete /usr/obj, and rerun the "make buildworld" under script(1) so you capture the exact error messages to send to the list when asking for help. 3) If the kernel doesn't boot, interrupt the boot process while it's counting down and type "boot kernel.GENERIC", then look for your mistake and try again. 4) Don't keep reading past words you don't understand 5) Don't drink Pepsi with poprocks, your stomach will explode. -Bill -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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