From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 10:17:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5099137B833 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 138Qsx-0000F1-00; Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:16:55 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 138Qsw-000Lim-00; Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:16:54 +0100 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:16:54 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: leegold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to understand installing a device driver Message-ID: <20000701181654.L48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000501bfe37e$ef589e50$20e17ad1@beefstew> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="96dIhm/ZjrNld+BP" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000501bfe37e$ef589e50$20e17ad1@beefstew> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --96dIhm/ZjrNld+BP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable leegold wrote: > /usr/src/sys what is this dir for? The source code for the FreeBSD kernel. > could someone explain what these cmds below are doing? >=20 > cd conf change into the "conf" directory (presumably /usr/src/sys/conf) > patch < files.diff Apply the patch from the "files.diff" file. That patch will likely add some lines to a file within the conf directory. Read "man patch" and "man diff" for more information on these things. If you read the files.diff file yourself you might be able to work out what is supposed to change. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --96dIhm/ZjrNld+BP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: kRhhrnhTg8Xwzs2BfbygWJU5BUMCsbkA iQCVAwUBOV4nhSsPVtiZOS99AQHw8QQAiKLDbVabXhodaNWqgp5cHVc5Wm6ykybY r9gKa8POAHB8KII5P45jjM761mZTMQGM7Mj69VVXY0a/w/j4SNxRqGx4tfR0HD7/ 8VRfq8S7UmLyC5PVJfR+sGZocBLqZd7IzLMviYIfnde9hBuoB5sB0vXqJXUgBPzt f0HyaMyO/Q0= =+Zkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --96dIhm/ZjrNld+BP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message