Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:56:04 -0700 From: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net> To: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Please be nice to the newbie.... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010722005420.03214a20@mail.blarg.net> In-Reply-To: <20010722095754.V452-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010721140325.03534e40@mail.blarg.net>
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:-) I was just talking to someone earlier about how lint seems to leave out a few key items of documentation, like what is required for SMBFS to work... Anyway, I've recompiled about 83 times since I sent in that post, trying to get ata-all.c to see my cd-rom, and I've only made one broken kernel, so I think I'm getting the hang of it... Derek At 12:59 AM 7/22/2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: >On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, 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)? > > > > I appreciate it, > > > > Derek > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > >Derek, > >Have found studying the "LINT" kernel config file, which is very >well commented, extremely useful when configuring a new kernel. > >/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT > > >Greetings, > >Lucien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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