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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: Where's config for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1993Nov1.150143.26977@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 15:01:43 GMT Lines: 23 Well, I pulled over 35 or so diskettes' worth of FreeBSD the other day, and put it all up. Ran out of disk space, so finally reluctantly deleted all of /usr/src (as the upgrade said to do). Expanded the srcsys.tgz, found GENERICAH and proceeded to copy and customize it (I really want to use swap space on /dev/wd1). Then, I looked around for config, and there isn't any! In fact, I can't find a config anywhere in any of the FreeBSD .tgz files. Config came with 386bsd; did I recycle the infant with the rinse water? Just about now, comes over me the feeling that I'm asking something pretty foolish. Some fatherly figure will post a reply and say "There there, you just have to build it first," and point me in the direction of the right makefile. OK, I'll swallow my pride and ask: is that all I have to do? The FAQ is pretty silent on this subject. With 386bsd, I figured it out from some really simple instructions which came with it, but FreeBSD is quite different. -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY