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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 1995 16:45:17 -0500
From:      "Brian Sletten" <bsletten@jester.autometric.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Questions
Message-ID:  <9503041645.ZM12019@jester.autometric.com>

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Howdy.

I just installed FreeBSD 2.0 last night and had a question about mouse support.
When I tried kicking off X via startx, it complained about /dev/mouse not being
configured.

Do I need to rebuild the kernel for this one? If so, (heck, even if not), could
you just give a really quick overview on this. I'm pretty sure that I know what
to do but I've never done it.

Is it basically:

	1) Modify a COPY of one of the existing config files(GENERIC, etc.).
	2) config new file
	3) go up a directory or two (to force libkern to be built) and doing
	   make depend and then make?
	4) Move the old /kernel to something like /kernel.old and the new one
           to /kernel.
	5) Reboot.

??

2.0 seems to have a lot of thought behind it (the installation was great --
although it hung during the extraction of X -- also, I can't seem to be able to
just rerun /sbin/sys_install without having to respecify new mount points etc.
I ended up just copying the X directory hierarchy from /file_sys/usr/X11R6 off
the CD)

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton for a brilliant
alternative!

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