From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 11:16:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBAB237B40A for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.225) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 18:16:55 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:23:56 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: Annelise Anderson , freebsd newbies Subject: Re: kernel compile help Message-Id: <20010915142356.4d20e1c1.nmace85@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20010912202802.5980f8cb.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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