Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:35:53 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: pvinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having some troubles... Message-ID: <199504291635.MAA12218@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504290437.VAA29892@ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Apr 28, 95 09:37:24 pm
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Paul Vinciguerra writes: > &rsgq ,&lsqb don't work and [] work *sometimes* 8^) That should be ] and [ and I just checked and the do work for me... > sgmlformat doesn't work right ... > > compile config.sgml (attached) as -html and as -ascii then look at the > CPU section... Where did the lines on the .txt version go? See below. > <sect><heading>What goes in the config file?</heading><p></p> > <sect1><heading>Global parameters</heading><p> > A system configuration file must contains the following: > <itemize> > <item> <ref id="machine" name="Machine Type"></item> > <item> <ref id="cpu" name="CPU Type"></item> > <item> <ref id="sysid" name="System Identification"></item> > <item> <ref id="maxusers" name="Maximum number of users"></item> > </itemize></p> The creation of "mini-menus" should be left to the processing program. As you will see in the latest sgmlformat incartation, this menu becomes redundant in the HTML output. > .. or a single kernel can be built to run on any of multiple CPU's Lines starting with a period trip up the ascii output because it goes through groff. This is a bug but until it is fixed, just be careful to avoid this. > <quote> > config <em>kernel</em> <newline> > root [on] <em>root-device</em><newline> > swap [on] <em>swap-device</em> and <em>swap-device</em> > ..<newline> > dumps [on] <em>dump-device</em><newline> > args [on] <em>arg-devide</em><newline> > </quote> Ditto. > <sect1><heading> Options</heading><p> > The options directive instructs the compiler to include optional code > in the kernel. For example:<newline><verb> > options "CHILD_MAX=128" > options "OPEN_MAX=128" > options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation > #options GPL_MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emualtion via > options "COMPAT_43" [etc...] This need to be laced with text describing what the options are for and why one might want them in their kernel. > <sect1><heading>Device Specification</heading><p> And same here. > If you're going to run PPP you need to add the following lines: > <verb> > pseudo-device ppp 2 #Point-to-point protocol > </verb>or if it's synchronous PPP, use:<verb> This last line causes a problem (although it shouldn't). Just insert a carriage return after the </verb>. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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