Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:04:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Build is complete Message-ID: <199609121304.PAA19280@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <808.842532489@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 12, 96 05:48:09 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >>> you don't have vn configured into your kernel. :-) >> >> Indeed. I suppose this should be documented. > > And indeed it is, on page 220 of your very own "The Complete FreeBSD" > book. :-) What did I tell you? RTFM! More seriously, what it says (said) is: Vnode driver. Allows a file to be treated as a device after being set up with the \fIvnconfig\fP command. This driver can be useful for manipulating floppy disk images and using a file as a swap device (e.g. an MS Windows swap file). Optional. Nothing there about needing it for building a release. I've changed it to the following, which I submit for general comments and flames: Vnode driver. Allows a file to be treated as a device after being set up with the \fIvnconfig\fP command. This driver can be useful for manipulating floppy disk images and using a file as a swap device (e.g. an MS Windows swap file). You also need this driver if you want to build a FreeBSD release, which you might want to do to get a boot floppy. This book doesn't discuss boot floppies in any more detail. Greg
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