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From: Font <font@Mcs.Net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: option NETATALK in 2.2.5R
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I double-checked the kernel config file I used that generated the odd
unbootable kernel, and found nothing unexpected.  Running it through
/usr/sbin/config and making it a third time resulted in a usable kernel.
It's possible that something very strange happened, because I no longer
can repeat the problem (which only happened twice).  So I concede it could
be one of the top two problems: operator error or hardware malfunction.
Yike on me.  Bully for FreeBSD!  If it happens again, I'll try it on a
different machine for verification before posting!

A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers                            font
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Wishes are like dishes.

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
> Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
> To: Font <font@Mcs.Net>
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: option NETATALK in 2.2.5R
> 
> On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Font wrote:
> 
> > FYI:
> > 
> > I added "option NETATALK" to a kernel configuration file that, aside from
> > having a number of network and disk devices commented out, was
> > substantially unchanged from GENERIC.  This resulted in a kernel file that
> > was 2512988 bytes, a much larger number than was expected (GENERIC is
> > 1457189).  This resulting kernel file hung as soon as the kernel was
> > loaded (it never got to process -c flags).  I haven't yet compiled the
> > netatalk software itself on this system (P200, 32M, 3C509, wd0 only).
> 
> I can't say I'm having the same problem.  I'm running a well changed
> GENERIC with NETATALK.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
>