From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 24 12:35:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE3A37B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6OJYgW83589; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:34:42 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:34:41 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Beech Rintoul Cc: Subject: Re: device.hints In-Reply-To: <01072411231609.06676@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Message-ID: <20010724093402.D50475-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I want to experiment with current. All went well on the build, but when I try > and install the kernel it stops telling me to install a "device.hints" file. > What do I need to do? I tried re-compiling the kernel with the "static" line > uncomented, but same problem on install. What you need to do is before installing the kernel... cp -p /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message