Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!newsfeed.concentric.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup Date: 24 Apr 1996 08:00:05 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4lkn25$qa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31752B90.73EA@shoreland.com> <4l6e1t$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <317D143D.516F@bcgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Clark B <clark@bcgi.com> writes: >1. Does configure kernel = recompile kernel? Yep. > or is there another way to do it? No. All the options are compile-time options anyway. (Traditionally config(8) simply converted ``option FOO'' into ``-DFOO'' in the kernel Makefile, but we are now converting to a scenario with opt_foo.h, so dependencies should work again). This basically mandates a re_compile_. >2. Does FreeBSD kernels compile the same way Linux kernels do? Certainly not. But the handbook covers it, see /usr/share/doc/handbook. >FreeBSD is **MUCH FASTER** than linux. The install was unbelievably easy >and it only took 2 1/2 hours from fdisk on linux to COMPLETELY installed >AND functioning FreeBSD machine! I was impressed. Err, now you should see the latest SNAP's! We are now installing with the file systems mounted async (i.e., the same that is the default for Linux, and that regularly causes heated debates here about file system integrity etc.), this substantially accelerates the installation. I've recently installed a system from CD-ROM onto an all-SCSI i586/133 machine. The minimal installation (just for testing the machine only) took less than 5 minutes to complete. :-) (Seriously, i've also been impressed.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)