Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Tetsuya Watanabe <tetuya@concentric.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981004133648.9527A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <3617D1B4.1DE47DFC@concentric.net>
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > 1) XFree86 3.3.1 was used with generic kernel. Also, my logitech > ps/2(psm0) mouse worked. The new kernel was built and the it boots > fine, however XFree86 3.3.1 refuses to run and says something like > "mouse(psm0) failed to load". Reconfigure xfree86 has not been > working. I specified "psm0" in the new kernel. Does this matter > relates to "profile", "rc", or "rc.conf"? Is psm0 also enabled? The default for psm0 is disabled. > 2) After installation, the pc was rebooted. It prompted to enter the > login name. So, I entered "root" and hit Enter. After that, I was > not required to enter password! I tried several times with the same > result. I changed root password with /stand/sysinstall program. Then, > I am enable to enter root password. I do not know the reason. You hadn't assigned a root password during the install? > 3) Since the reboot following kernel rebuilt, the root partition(/) is > full. DF says that the capacity for / is 104% and -XXX is available. > So, I checked the / and found that the new kernel is as eight times > large as the size of generic kernel although the new kernel, which I > wrote was smaller than "generic" kernel file. When I "ls -l" the > directory, the size of the new kernel is more than 9*10^6. As a result > of this, running programs is somewhat unstable. The / was assigned > 32MB space. I'd rebuild that custom kernel again and triple check your config file before doing so. I have no idea how you'd get a 9M kernel. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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