Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:49:36 -0500 (EST) From: <doug@safeport.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203070958160.5813-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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This addresses only the question of the kernel being a best kept
secret. Compiling a kernel is well documented
If you are going to use FreeBSD (or any unix) there is a learning curve.
If you know any unix variant, it not much. If you come from a windows or
mac environment you should at least:
read or skim the handbook. Specifically for your questions chapter 9
and A.6. I assume you already read Chap 2. ;) Then if you have
specific questions about a step or when something goes wrong you will
get a lot of help.
The more of a computer background you have the easier the learning curve
but it is different. My suggestions:
1) Greg Lehey posts: "How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions".
from time-to-time. Read that.
2) Scribe to stable@freebsd.org in addition to this list
3) Assuming little or no Unix background:
a) learn the file system and source trees.
b) read man pages until you can understand them a bit
c) /usr/.../doc has good stuff, scan that.
I came to this with no Unix but a fair amount of computer/programming
background. My most valuable resources were a "buddy" who helped me to
get going, and Unix System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, et
all. Here I would include the handbook, but I started with another of
the BSDs.
Aside from the occasional errors introduced by the committers (read
stable), my most common errors building a kernel:
1) something changed and I did not read stable
2) clean out /usr/obj
3) make cleandir in /usr/src/sys/modules
4) clean out /usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL (now not necessary if you
follow the steps, I think).
5) I almost always use NFS to build systems so my favorite error is
that /etc/make.conf does not match on the target and build
systems. I have now done this enough where I no long ask on stable
what went wrong :)
All of that said, to build a kernel my cheat list is:
Read /usr/src/UPDATING.
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=client
make installkernel KERNCONF=client
make installworld
run mergemaster and reboot
Not too complex and well documented.
_____
Douglas Denault
doug@safeport.com
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