Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 9:08:25 MDT From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: willvito@niia.net (Bill Vitaniemi) Cc: questions@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD questions.... Message-ID: <199604240708.JAA28629@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199604240208.VAA11942@silver.niia.net>; from "Bill Vitaniemi" at Apr 23, 96 9:08 pm
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> (Discovered that the unix partion must be below 1M or it just > won't boot to Unix. Didn't see anything about this in the documentation > anywhere.) It's there somewhere in the online handbook. It's also in the book "Installing FreeBSD" now available from Walnut Creek. > As far as Unix, everything I've learned has been from one of two > books (Unix Administration by Garth, Nemeth, etc. and the other book is the > O'reilly book with the armadillo on the cover) or by trial and fire. Neither > of the books are very BSD specific though. Nemeth and Co. should have all you need, assuming you have the Second Edition (red cover. I believe the first edition was some other colour). > There isn't a whole lot about > initially configuring a new machine in any documentation I've seen. It's a difficult problem. Again, buy "Installing FreeBSD". > One problem I have is on booting my experimental machine is I see > some lines that say something like.. > > myname.my.domain: bad value > starting routing daemons: > standard daemons:cron, printer, sendmail (myname...) does not seem to exist!: > connection refused > > I'm on the trail of getting this one figured out, have been messing with > sysconfig and some files in /etc/named. Fortunately, I can do comparisons > between my on line machine and experimental machine configuration files. > Even so, I still need to understand why the error. At a guess, you didn't do your network setup when installing the software. Network setup changes exactly these files. > The is also another error that says something about the router value > being bad just before the above lines. This, too. > After getting BSD configured, then it's off to configuring x-windows. There's a chapter about this in (dare I say it?) "Installing FreeBSD". Mike Smith said almost all I could say about the remaining subjects. Since you have Nemeth and Co., you should check the BSD disk partitioning info in there. It's painful, but you should get enough information to be able to do it. I've been volunteered to write up a section on adding disks for the on-line handbook, but it might take a while. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.de Schellnhausen 2 Tel: +49-6637-919123 36325 Feldatal Fax: +49-6637-919122 Germany
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