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From: grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stronghold and other binaries for OpenBSD 2.0
Date: 27 Mar 1997 18:23:56 GMT
Organization: George's Pet Unix System
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In article <5hcdqr$fq3@ocean.silcom.com>, David Carmean wrote:
>
>I tried OpenBSD. It's not recognizing the top 64MB of the 128MB. I'm
>told by a kernel-hacker fond of OpenBSD that this is a known problem,
>and that I can hardcode the size in the kernel config. Fine. But so
>far, the only way I've been able to figure out how to configure the
>machine is by reading the rc files. If there are better docs
>somewhere, please point me to them! I'm not expecting Plug-n-Play,
>but HOWTOs are nice.
Sure are. Neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD have obvious "roadmap" documents.
For general info, go to /usr/share/doc/smm/01.setup and "make" the
document there. It's of 4.4BSD, rather than current vintage, but it
gives a good overview of many of the issues, tasks and procedures
involved in setting up and maintaining the sytem. That's about 80
pages of useful instructions nobody tells you about...
I don't know why the equivalent 02.config section is missing, since
there's a 4.3/4 version of that also that is also useful, if not
neccessarily "correct". You can find that and some of the other
"missing" sections at:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/BSD/net2/usr/share/doc/smm/*
Also, the 4.4BSD version of these documents is available in print from
O'Riley ("Nutshell...") and you may be able to find or order them at your
local computer-book store.
The "Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Unix Operating System"
textbook by Leffler et.al. is also quite useful if you want an overview
of what's under the covers.
>... This seems to be a package that
>is fine for BSD gurus and kernel hackers, but I am neither at this
>point.
Probably a reasonable assumption...it's the "we got the source and are
more intersted in multi-architecture than maximal i386/PC support" gang
of developers and users; other groups have other priorities - FreeBSD,
BSDI, Solaris...
>So we decided to switch to FreeBSD, but it seems like all of the
>2.2.1R distributions are in various states of disarray after
>some fits and starts with the release....I've tried three so far
>(install via FTP) and it's either looking for the wrong file
>extensions or the directory contents are missing altogether.
Ouch... FreeBSD looks pretty good, but I haven't actually tried to
install any of the releases.
--
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