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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stock FreeBSD 2.1R and XFree86 3.1.2 Installation Woes
Date: 3 Dec 1995 23:31:01 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <49tbvl$99v@times.tfs.com>
References: <49svmt$k7j@uuneo.neosoft.com>
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In article <49svmt$k7j@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
John Kurtz <jkurtz@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
>Hello.
>
>Last night, I upgraded from 2.0R to 2.1R and have had fits with the following
>items:
>
>1. For some reason I can not get my ATAPI IDE CD-ROM installed properly. Any
> clues on configuration on the kernel for doing this?
My car won't start..
what should I do to fix this?
you need to supply the following information on ANY request of this type..
IO ports used by any hardware
interrupts used by any hardware
output of the boot message (try 'dmesg')
>
[...]
>
>3. During kernel rebuilds while trying to get XFree86 to work, the compiler
> would kick out and report:
>
> Process ### killed by vm_pageout -- out of swap
> (then died from signal 9)
looks like the swap partition you mentionned isn't being told to the system..
show:
output from:
fdisk wd0
disklabel wd0
/etc/fstab
>
[.....]
>
>Machine configuration (which worked happily under 2.0R):
>
> 486DX2-66, 16Meg Ram, 1G IDE Harddrive (150M DOS, 32M /, 48M swap, rest
> on /usr), Reveal Quad-speed ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive, internal 14.4 modem,
> 3 1/2 1.44 floppy
good but much more info required..
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