Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:35:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Router Questions/Comments Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808302219030.4430-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <01bdd29f$3200fb00$858266ce@violet.ezo.net>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Jim Flowers wrote:
> I am just now compiling the new picobsd router configuration (picobsd 0.4)
> and have developed the following questions/comments:
>
> 1. build/clean does not remove the
> $(SRC}/sys/i386/conf/PICOBBSD${suffix}.${SIZE} file. If you make changes in
> source files remove this manually so the test will fail and the kernel will
> be rebuilt.
Currently the test that is performed is in fact slightly wrong, and should
be corrected: I check for the presence of the
...../i386/PICOBSD.../kernel, which is insufficient. I'll correct this to
support dependency of the build process on the config file.
>
> 2. There is no way to edit the configuration files (to change the hostname
> for example). I added ee to the router/crunch.conf file for this. Is there
> a better way? Can't use nfs as the mount command doesn't support it.
"router" still waits for someone to write a command-line tool to edit
configuration... :-). Seriously, I didn't add 'ee' because it's overkill -
we wouldn't use even half of its functions, it's too big and consumes too
much memory as compared to such very well defined (and limited) task. I
repeat: it simply needs a small command-line config utility, that's all.
In the meantime, you can mount the floppy on some other machine and edit
it there...
> 3. The update script does not work, probably because the custom shell does
> not support scripts. The script commands can be entered manually to mount
> the floppy and copy the editied conf files. Is there a better way?
Yes. You can source-in the /stand/update. i.e.
(49)/# . /stand/update
will do the job. I forgot to mention this in the docs, and it's not so
obvious...
> 4. On "umount /dev/fd0a", an error message is displayed "part 1, stat=0,
> size=2880\n dkl: slice 1 overlaps slice 0". Does this indicate a problem?
No, it's harmless. It comes from DEVFS code, which is still experimental
and its author left many diagnostic messages on...
> 5. There is no Makefile in tinyware/simple_httpd so the build/clean script
> fails at this point and doesn't go on. Solution was to copy and edit
> Makefile from tinyware/sps.
Yep. One more omission... :(
> 6. The file /README referenced on the splash screen is not present.
I'll correct this as well. Thanks!
Well, what can I say... I can only say that when only a single person
prepares such a project it's error prone. I hope that availability of the
picobsd source tree in official CVS tree will help us all to do it
better...
Andrzej Bialecki
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