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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:24:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
Cc:        gregs@mail.wacom.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quits responding to IP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970128220606.1932D-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970128183335.1916A-100000@sergio>

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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Lenzi, Sergio wrote:

> Hello gregs.....
> 
> It seems that your system is running the install (generic) kernel.
> 
> 
> This kernel is very small to work with this load.
> 
> Here is the kernel I use or "suggest"....

There are a couple of things I would suggest changing in here.

> ---------------------cut----------------------------
> machine		"i386"
> cpu		"I386_CPU"
> cpu		"I486_CPU"
> cpu		"I586_CPU"
> cpu		"I686_CPU"

Pick one of the above cpu lines, having them all is a loss.

> ident		GENERIC
> maxusers	40
> 
> options		MATH_EMULATE		#Support for x87 emulation

The GNU math-coprocessor emulation is supposedly better.  And does the 
intended user of this have a coprocessor?  They may not need emulation at 
all.

> options		INET			#InterNETworking
> options		FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options		MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem

Is this working yet?

> options		"CD9660"		#ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options		PROCFS			#Process filesystem
> options		"COMPAT_43"		#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
> options		SCSI_DELAY=15		#Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
> options		BOUNCE_BUFFERS		#include support for DMA bounce buffers

I thought bounce buffers were only necessary for systems with >16MB of 
RAM and an ISA SCSI card?

> options		UCONSOLE		#Allow users to grab the console
> options		FAILSAFE		#Be conservative

This does nothing except with one particular SCSI card, IIRC.
 
> options		SYSVSHM
> options		SYSVSEM
> options		SYSVMSG
> options		"SHMMAXPGS=8000"
> 
> 
> config		kernel	root on wd0
>
> controller	isa0
> controller	pci0
> 
> controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
> disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive 0
> disk		fd1	at fdc0 drive 1
> 
> controller	wdc0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff vector wdintr
> disk		wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
> disk		wd1	at wdc0 drive 1
> 
> controller	wdc1	at isa? disable port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0x80ff80ff vector wdintr
> disk		wd2	at wdc1 drive 0
> disk		wd3	at wdc1 drive 1
> 
> options		ATAPI		#Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> options		ATAPI_STATIC	#Don't do it as an LKM
> device		wcd0	#IDE CD-ROM
> 
> controller	matcd0	at isa? port 0x230 bio
> 
> device		scd0	at isa? port 0x320 bio
> 
> device		sc0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
> options		XSERVER			# include code for XFree86
>
> # Mandatory, don't remove
> device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
> 
> device		sio0	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
> device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
> device		sio2	at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
> device		sio3	at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
> 
> device		lpt0	at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
> 
> 
> device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  10 vector epintr
> device ep1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  10 vector epintr
> 
> pseudo-device	loop
> pseudo-device	ether
> pseudo-device	log
> pseudo-device	sl	4
> pseudo-device	ppp	4
> pseudo-device	tun	4
> pseudo-device	pty	16
> pseudo-device	bpfilter 1
> ---------------------------------cut----------------------------
> Install the system sources for the kernel...
> (cd /cdrom/src/;cat ssys* | tar xvzf - -C /usr/src)
> 
> 
> install this config file as  /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/server (for example>
> 
> It is configured to work with up to 2 3com 3c509 at address 300 irq 10.
> 
> do a config server,cd ../../compile/server, make depend all install.
> 
> on  second time you need to change something in the config,
> do a config -n server,cd ../../compile/server, make all install
> 
> 
> Be patient, on a machine like yours, the make lasts almost 30 minutes.
> after that, reboot the machine to work with the new kernel.
> 
> 
> Sergio Lenzi.
> 
> Unix consult.
> 
> 



 Ben

The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation 
Board of Queensland, Australia.





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