From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 7:52:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from twizors.rug.ac.be (twizors.rug.ac.be [157.193.55.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2018937BC2A for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ageorges@twizors.rug.ac.be) Received: from localhost (ageorges@localhost) by twizors.rug.ac.be (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18400; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:57:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ageorges@twizors.rug.ac.be) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:57:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andy Georges To: flupke Cc: freeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: building kernel in 4.0 In-Reply-To: <38EB4F62.F9F5356@mail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yow, > I'm not too unfamiliar with the unix environement, as I've been using > linux for about 3 or 4 years, now, but I'm a brand new user of freeBSD. > I installed the 4.0 verion yesterday. So please don't flame me if my > questions have a too "newbie" level, or if I'm adressing my request to > the wrong list. i suppose you might ask this sort of questions on freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, but i'm not completely sure since i only started reading this list a few weeks ago, so perhaps i also post questions in here that don't really belong here. > 1) I discovered that the handbook has been written for the 3.4 freeBSD > version, and that the execution of /usr/sbin/config reported some > obsolete (or even unknown) keywords and drivers in my config file. Could > someone tell me where I can find a manual to configure the kernel I'm > running? you should look at /sys/i386/conf/LINT all the kernel options and devices etc. are listed there. If you don't know what it might do, don't touch it the first time :-) you might just make a copy of GENERIC to say MYKERNEL (as they so originally put it :-) and adjust a number of options etc. in there. Don't start editing LINT. > 2) I use lilo to boot my machine. I read that I could choose the kernel > to boot with the freeBSD boot loader, but can I do this with lilo? > Because of course, I'm afraid to build a bad configured kernel. hmm i have no idea . there should be a document somewhere explaining how to use Linux & fbsd next to each other, perhaps it's in there... > 3) All the devices are not listed in the handbook, so I wonder : do I > just have to add the lines 'device bktr0' and 'device vr0' in order to > have my bttv and D-Link cards recognized by the kernel? if they're in the LINT file, just go ahead and see what it does. hope this helps, Andy ========================================================================== Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ghent Krijgslaan 281 - S9, B - 9000 Ghent, Belgium Phone: +32-9-264.47.66, Fax: +32-9-264.49.95 E-mail: andy.georges@rug.ac.be ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message