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From: kevin graham <kgraham@ahoynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: learning freebsd...
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:13:21 -0400
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I'm still entirely green with freebsd, having come from the realm of 
windows nt/95... in any case, i have a successful installation and have 
been trying for several days now to rebuild the kernel.. 

the system is an intel486/66 with 12mb ram and a single ide disk 
(325mb)... along with a 1.44 floppy, 3c5x9 ethernet adapter, 2 serial/1 
parallel, and a vga card that's it.. it will eventually be used as a web 
server.. 

however, it seems whenever i try to compile the kernel (following 
instructions in the 'intro to freebsd'), while runing make in 
/usr/src/sys/compile/mykernel, it crashes on errors at seemingly random 
spots (the same source set run twice in a row may very well crash at two 
different spots)... i even tried compiling 
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and had error... any ideas?

on another note, i also have had no luck getting the ethernet card 
clicking... its setup at 300h/irq10 both phyically and in the os, with 
(a presumable) ip address of 192.168.0.1 ... no luck at all on pinging 
into or out of the thing.... once again... could someone spin me towards 
the right corner?

tia..
..kg..
http://www.ahoynet.com/~kgraham