Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:23:56 -0400 From: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kernel compile help Message-ID: <20010915142356.4d20e1c1.nmace85@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109122123340.75898-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <20010912202802.5980f8cb.nmace85@yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109122123340.75898-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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> After the new base system is installed (make world, or make > buildworld && make installworld) and the kernel is built and > installed you can run mergemaster to merge /usr/src/etc with > /etc; the latest versions offer to run sh /dev/MAKEDEV all > for you. Otherwise you can run it yourself. > > Annelise do i HAVE to run mergemaster? what happens if i don't? the reason i ask is that when i ran it it so totally messed up the /etc partition that the OS wouldn't boot, luckily i had backups of my data and ended up deleting the partition and starting over from scratch. what went wrong? nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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