From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 1 21:17:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2E837B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 687B043E65 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: (qmail 2978 invoked by uid 1111); 2 Oct 2002 04:17:32 -0000 Date: 1 Oct 2002 21:17:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:17:31 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Helmut gruder Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Doc update Message-ID: <20021002041731.GA625@soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 at 03:53:27 +0000, Helmut gruder wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm a unix admin of 13yrs and the other day my neighbor ask me > to help him install Freebsd on on his laptop. No problem. I had > it on a an intel machine at my own house. He had downloaded and > burned several CDs so we made the boot disk and off we went. > Today, we tried to recompile the kernel to include apm. Again, > no problem, but when we refered to your online documentation > it was less then helpful. Chapter nine is in need of a serious > rewrite. Paths are incorrect, the instructions on simply mounting > a CD and untarring the /usr/sys directory will not allow you to > compile a kernel ! Of course, you get what you pay for right? > No reply neccesary, 13yrs pays off again. Some details of what's incorrect might be useful. Also, it's not /usr/sys, it's /usr/src/sys, as the documentation says. - jim -- jim mock jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message