From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 12:26:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E627E16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:26:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mymail.netmagicians.com (mymail.netmagicians.com [202.87.39.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 561FD43D41 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:26:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sid@netmagicsolutions.com) Received: (qmail 20822 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 12:41:19 -0000 Received: from sid@netmagicsolutions.com by netmagicsolutions.com by uid 504 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (uvscan: v4.3.20/v4100. Clear:. Processed in 0.757407 secs); 17 Aug 2004 12:41:19 -0000 Received: from intra.netmagicsolutions.com (HELO ?10.1.1.161?) (202.87.39.242) by mymail.netmagicians.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 12:41:18 -0000 Message-ID: <4121F985.6030501@netmagicsolutions.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:56:45 +0530 From: Siddhartha Jain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?= References: <4121EEE7.4080503@no-log.org> In-Reply-To: <4121EEE7.4080503@no-log.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Newbies Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:26:45 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Valéry wrote: | REF : documentation | http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.html | | | Hi, | i'm installing FreeBSD in order to change my NT5.1 | with Apache & ftp server. | I'm comming from IBM OS/390 mainframe and don't know | anything on Unix like systems. I'm a C/C++ developper too. | | My question beeing very simple, i think you don't need | technical information, but see on * lines below. | | Q : how to launch the "Kernel Configuration Menu" script | as described on Ch 2.3.2 (fig. 2.1) ? | | i don't have any option to do that on the Loader Menu (i tried all) | i tried to "grep-find" the script (or command) but fails. | | * i'm using/booting from FreeBSD 5.2.1, disc-1 | * boot0 & boot1 are Ok | * Loader Ok | * Sysinstall running Ok | Note : a mini-install of 5.2.1 is currently installed on my HDD | and seem to work properly. I would like to configure more | accurately my Kernel now. | | Great thanks, FreeBSD is exactly what i want, | First you might want to move away from 5.2.1 to 4.10 because 5.2.1 isn't stable release. 4.10 is the stable release or wait till 5.3 gets released. Also, see this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html - -- Siddhartha Jain (CISSP) Consulting Engineer Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd Bombay - 400063 Phone: +91-22-26850001 Ext.128 Fax : +91-22-26850002 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBIfmEOGaxOP7knVwRAhgvAJ0Ri6EdjVeGhg4Ej/uPl5xc4cfOBQCeOAXX t3wpvYduXBAcsa9UARrlt0Y= =p0C7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----