From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 22 0:50:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nomad.com (dialup-59-72.dplanet.ch [212.35.59.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855B437B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nomad.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6M7xiW00454; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:59:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:59:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "A. L. Meyers" To: "Derek C." Cc: Subject: Re: Please be nice to the newbie.... In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010721140325.03534e40@mail.blarg.net> Message-ID: <20010722095754.V452-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Derek C. wrote: > Hello all, I am new to FreeBSD, and I am about to embark on my first > FreeBSD kernel compile. I am very familiar with the kernel build process in > linux, but FreeBSD appears to be a very different animal in that respect. > > So, what I am asking, is there any advice that you would care to impart to > this FreeBSD newbie (aside from RTFM, which I have done... FreeBSD's docs > kick butt)? > > I appreciate it, > > Derek > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Derek, Have found studying the "LINT" kernel config file, which is very well commented, extremely useful when configuring a new kernel. /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT Greetings, Lucien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message