Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:17:31 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Helmut gruder <helmut_gruder@hotmail.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Doc update Message-ID: <20021002041731.GA625@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <F490kKIBXEHt3V5g2oH00011f9d@hotmail.com> References: <F490kKIBXEHt3V5g2oH00011f9d@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 at 03:53:27 +0000, Helmut gruder wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm a unix admin of 13yrs and the other day my neighbor ask me > to help him install Freebsd on on his laptop. No problem. I had > it on a an intel machine at my own house. He had downloaded and > burned several CDs so we made the boot disk and off we went. > Today, we tried to recompile the kernel to include apm. Again, > no problem, but when we refered to your online documentation > it was less then helpful. Chapter nine is in need of a serious > rewrite. Paths are incorrect, the instructions on simply mounting > a CD and untarring the /usr/sys directory will not allow you to > compile a kernel ! Of course, you get what you pay for right? > No reply neccesary, 13yrs pays off again. Some details of what's incorrect might be useful. Also, it's not /usr/sys, it's /usr/src/sys, as the documentation says. - jim -- jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org> jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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