From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 15:49:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raq02.vbcomm.net (raq02.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D907837B401 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrincubator.org (vpn.ckhlaw.com [208.178.123.53]) by raq02.vbcomm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10328 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 18:49:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3CFAA0F5.7D6D210F@mrincubator.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 18:49:25 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Kernel errors References: <3CFA5EC6.5020304@linuxorbit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. Please do not respond. I know I'm wrong. Don't bother telling me. As a lurking engineer with a background in sysarchitecture, I followed this thread closely, though I don't know a 'make buildkernel' from a 'make installworld'. This thread illustrates what scares the hell out of me about getting into the water at this beach. There appears to be no casual use of fbsd. You either freeze dry your system and ignore security alerts, or you dedicate your life to following the STABLE branch, or you die. Or maybe you dedicate your life and die anyway. If you forget one little thing and a shark comes by, maybe you can find help in time and maybe you can't, but there are too many undocumented or poorly documented details to be able to depend upon your own abilities and still sleep soundly. The experiences of David LeCount and of Bernardo Brummer seem to be far too common. Jeez, the meanings of error messages aren't even documented. FreeBSD - forever young. Ciao -- Mark Please do not respond. I know I'm wrong. Don't bother telling me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message