From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 01:46:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03127 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 01:46:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA03121 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 01:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA07493; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 01:46:43 -0800 (PST) To: Simon Shapiro cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:18:56 PST." Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 01:46:43 -0800 Message-ID: <7489.854444803@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > # mkdir /NewStuff > # mount -t nfs -o ro nomis;/usr/src/FreeBSD /NewStuff # mount -t nfs -o ro,resvport nomis:/usr/src/FreeBSD /NewStuff Now try it. > 3. Made a kernel with sound, etc... Worked fine until some days ago. > Now, all of the sudden, without me doing anything (really :-): Hmph. Sound still works just fine for me using this morning's kernel. I don't believe you. :-) You must have mucked something else up, though you're probably looking in the wrong place for "something" right now. > a. When init goes to single user, prompts, asking for a shell. > You press ENTER and it sits on ``(.???msg - Cannot exactly > remember) not found'' I would like to know what that message is. It works fine. > 5. More CD fun. Once a music CD is played, you cannot mount a data > cd because ``device is busy''. Reboot cures. Can't reproduce. Are you SURE that xcdplayer or whatever player you're using isn't still running somewhere? > 7. trying /stand/sysinstall from a live system dumps core either on > (the equivalent of) fdisk or disklabel. Fixed in later versions. > 10. Kernel Question: On an i386 PC, how does one make sure that > another driver does not use the same ISA ports as you do? "you" being whom in this example? The question doesn't quite parse into anything I can immediately answer. One answer might be "boot -c", but that's assuming a certain value for the question. :-) > 11. Another Kernel question: A device driver for a controller that > is available in ISA, EISA and PCI. How do you split the code? 3 probe routines and one common set of driver code, if possible. See how the Buslogic driver is done, for example. Jordan