Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:50:35 -0700 From: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please be nice to the newbie.... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010721144835.03536788@mail.blarg.net> In-Reply-To: <3B59F7DD.5CB401EF@iowna.com> References: <20010721111339.B75328-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20010721182504.L857-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> <20010721111339.B75328-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010721140325.03534e40@mail.blarg.net>
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Well, I'm going to ask everyone to take this off the list, and if you do reply, please do so to me directly, or via the questions list, to which I will soon be subscribing (at the kind request of a subscriber to this list)... I appreciate your advice, but I shall continue drinking Pepsi with Pop Rocks, as the minor inconvenience of getting my stomach sewn shut is well made up for by the amazing flavors. Thanks, Derek At 02:45 PM 7/21/2001, Bill Moran wrote: >"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)? > >1) Follow the handbook exactly. >2) If the kernel doesn't compile, delete /usr/obj, and rerun the "make > buildworld" under script(1) so you capture the exact error messages to > send to the list when asking for help. >3) If the kernel doesn't boot, interrupt the boot process while it's > counting down and type "boot kernel.GENERIC", then look for your > mistake and try again. >4) Don't keep reading past words you don't understand >5) Don't drink Pepsi with poprocks, your stomach will explode. > >-Bill > >-- >It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* >know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the >state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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