From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 12 01:09:51 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA15075 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:09:51 -0700 Received: from mpp.com ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA15069 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:09:47 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id DAA01350 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 03:09:50 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199506120809.DAA01350@mpp.com> Subject: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 03:09:49 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1833 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Is the FreeBSD mentor project still alive? I think I just picked up my first student from one of the USENET groups, so you might as well put my name on the list...:-) Anyways, I've responded to several questions from various sources in the past week about setting up PPP, and the problem that all of these people were having was that they were running a new 2.0.5 kernel that didn't have PPP configured because it was taken out so that the kernel would fit on the boot floppy. It has been these questions that prompted me to submit the changes to the ppp.FAQ file to the freeebsd-doc mailing list that tell people to check if PPP has been configured into the kernel they are running before trying to get PPP working. Since a lot of potential new FreeBSD users probably are using PPP/SLIP through some type of ISP, the GENERIC configuration file should contain PPP by default. If we need a smaller kernel for the boot floppy, then there should be a "BOOTFLP" configuration instead. The installation should start with the BOOTFLP kernel, but one of the loaded distributions (bindist? or whatever) should provide a more fully configured kernel. E.g. the GENERIC kernel. This should be done for 2.1. As I stated above, I've got a guy I've been trying to help for the past couple of days, but he is VERY new to UNIX. I pointed him to the FAQ that told him how to rebuilt a kernel, and he was still having problems because he doesn't really know about make/vi/everything else we all take for granted. At least he got the system installed in the first place, which is a good sign. Is there a "generic" UNIX FAQ or book I could point him at? If there is one, our own FAQs should probably point to this, too. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"