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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:56:04 -0700
To: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>
From: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net>
Subject: Re: Please be nice to the newbie....
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:-) I was just talking to someone earlier about how lint seems to leave out 
a few key items of documentation, like what is required for SMBFS to work...

Anyway, I've recompiled about 83 times since I sent in that post, trying to 
get ata-all.c to see my cd-rom, and I've only made one broken kernel, so I 
think I'm getting the hang of it...

Derek

At 12:59 AM 7/22/2001, A. L. Meyers wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Derek C. wrote:
>
> > Hello all, I am new to FreeBSD, and I am about to embark on my first
> > FreeBSD kernel compile. I am very familiar with the kernel build process in
> > linux, but FreeBSD appears to be a very different animal in that respect.
> >
> > So, what I am asking, is there any advice that you would care to impart to
> > this FreeBSD newbie (aside from RTFM, which I have done... FreeBSD's docs
> > kick butt)?
> >
> > I appreciate it,
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
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> >
>
>Derek,
>
>Have found studying the "LINT" kernel config file, which is very
>well commented, extremely useful when configuring a new kernel.
>
>/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Lucien


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