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Thanks for your input.

I read the handbook and am certain to understand more of it next time.  It was my first kernel
build- did not survive very long.

Darrel

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> I've redirected  this to freebsd-questions which is more relevant.
>
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:01, Darrel wrote:
>> make buildworld
>> exit
>> script /var/tmp/bk.out
>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=BIGD
>> exit
>
> Did these succeed?
> You didn't cd into /usr/src first so I don't see how they can have worked..
>
>> - Rebooted to single user
>> fsck -p
>
> Why run fsck?
>
>> mount -u /
>> mount -a -t ufs
>
> mount -a is fine here (unless you have NFS in fstab)
>
>> swapon -a
>> make installkernel KERNCONF=BIGD
>>    error code don't know how to make bsd.README
>
> You aren't in /usr/src?
>
> Did you read the handbook on this stuff?
>
> -- 
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