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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:35:11 -0400
From:      "Gail M. Pickett" <gmpicket@icx.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE:  Macintosh access to FreeBSD over TCP/IP ??
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000412113511.00797910@mailhub.icx.net>

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Thanks for help from both David Kelly and Chris Hill.  

<big snip>

I got the netatalk uninstalled and did pkg_add for the netatalk-1.4b2 only.  

I don't have the CD's unfortunately.  I checked Walnut Creek's website for
ordering CD's and they only listed the CD set for 4.0 as being available
which would mean upgrading.  If I could get 3.3 Release on CD, I would be
extremely happy.  

So, I see my choices for building a custom kernel:

1.  Package (binary) upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 by downloading the bin, man,
boot floppies, and src/ssys (kernel source) and installing.  

2.  Use another machine running 3.3 Release (which is available) to CVSup,
build and install world, build the custom kernel there, and then port the
kernel (via floppy) to my file server.  Would this actually work?  

3.  Get a modem (requires installing a new serial port and configuring with
boot -c at boot time) and do CVSup directly on the file server (back-up
first, of course), build/install world, then build custom kernel.  

4.  It is possible to manually configure the kernel for hardware at boot
time, why isn't it possible to manually configure the kernel for other
stuff at boot time, i.e. add the netatalk support?  That it doesn't "stick"
and has to be done each boot is no big deal as the file server stays on
24x7.  

That said, I will play with CAPS first and if that fails for me, I will try
to build a custom kernel.  





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