Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 14:46:53 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Eswaran Srinivasan <eswar@idc.tandem.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building Free BSD source ... Message-ID: <34533BBD.5EDB@barcode.co.il> References: <9710261206.AA24450@pelican.isd>
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Eswaran Srinivasan wrote: > > Hi, > > I got a CD containing the 4.4 Free BSD Lite 2 source. I am trying > to build the source on i386 platform. It is giving lot of problems. > (around 50 problems so far). I am fixing one by one and proceeding > with the build. Most of the problems are "undefined symbols in text > or data segment". > > Just curious to know if this is the normal case or there is a clean > code which I can just download and build without trouble ? Any suggestions, > which code I should pick up ? I mean Release 2.2.2 code, current code > etc. ? > BSD-Lite cannot just be built out of the box. It is *not* a complete OS. FreeBSD is an operating system based on the BSD Lite code base, with many enhancement and additions. They are not the same thing. Now, if you want to install FreeBSD, that's a different matter. Look through the web site http://www.freebsd.org for details on how to do that. As for the version you should install, that depends on what you need it for. The 2.2 branch (from which the latest release is 2.2.5) is geared towards stability and is the one to use on a production server. Current is work-in-progress and offers more features at the cost of less stability. > Regards > - Eswaran Srinivasan > > \\|// > (o ~) > -------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------------------------------------- > Eswaran Srinivasan | Contact : > Wipro Infotech Group - Global R&D | Phone : 91-80-5522296, Ext: 3076 > 26, Chamundi Complex, | E-Mail : eswar@wipinfo.soft.net > Begur-Hongasandra Village | eswar@idc.tandem.com > Bommanahalli, Bangalore - 560 068 | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nadav
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