On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:42 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Kevin,
>1. Your mail address bounced my attempt at a private reply. Sorry, I don't uderstand why - it is a timelimited address that should work! but it's a facility I don't use that often.... I did have a look through my log and didn't see a rejection that would tie up with your message. Hmmm. Just a thought: did the bounce message actually come from my mailserver? >2. Building a kernel with config is not officially supported. It's at > your risk and may not work in all cases. Build a kernel with: > cd /usr/src > make buildkernel I was just fightened by all this make.conf stuff! If everything is in my kernel file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MINIMUM_PPS, can I just ignore make.conf? >3. You need "device mii" if you have any network device that uses it and > most do. Yes, it's included; | device miibus # MII bus support | # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus' | device ed # NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards >4. If you update sources, you need to build both world and kernel. (See > /usr/src/UPDATING near the end.) If sources are not changes, just > re-build the kernel. I wasn't sure if that was necessary. I takes about 2 hours to build the kernel without modules, about 15 hours with modules - I've no idea how long buildworld is going to take... Thanks again. Geoff _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
