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From: itech@onramp.net (David Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Device Help
Date: 15 Mar 1997 16:57:57 GMT
Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP
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Boot with the -c command and change your kernel from that.

In article <5g1l1s$ghg$1@quartz.cyberstation.net>, 
mtlhd@citrine.cyberstation.net says...
>
>Hiya All,
>
>I have been working on systems w/ various BSD os', but this is the first time 
that I have tried to
>install a unix os.
>
>Right now I have got FreeBSD v2.1.7 setup. No problem booting w/ the Boot Mgr 
between FreeBSD &
>Win95.
>
>Problems that I am having:
>
>Client PPP: I think the problem is where the modem is installed (I'll work on 
this problem
>tonight).
>
>Kernel: I'm trying to remove all scsi references in the kernel, since I don't 
have any scsi
>devices.  But, when I start compiling it (make depend) the compile stops.  I 
have to have some
>references to scsi devices, it seems, but I would rather not have any.
>
>Any advice for a newbie installer would be appreciated.
>
>--
>----------------------------------------------
>                |  Robert Hill |
>              mtlhd@cyberstation.net
>            firebug@cyberstation.net
>----------------------------------------------
>