G8KBV wrote:
Hi all again.
I'm still trying to follow the instructions at:-
http://blog.doylenet.net/?p=145
As earlier, so far so good (if after several tries, eventualy getting
FreeBSD loaded and running) I'm at the stage of enabling PPS support in
the kernel.
But....
After successfully adding 'options PPS_SYNC' to the PPSGENERIC file, at
the end of the other options declerations (using vim!) And checking
it's 'stuck' in there.
When I 'make buildkernel KENRCONF=PPSGENERIC'
Nowt happens, except a short error message to the effect that it doesnt
know how to build the kernel.
Err, what!????
I did have to go back into sysinstall, to download and install the
system sources, but after that, right up to the make buildkernel....
command, all had gone as described.
So, what's missing, and where how can I get it.
Anyone here know what went wrong, or do I go looking for a newbie
friendly f'bsd group (not found one of those yet.)
I've just downloaded the sources onto my NetBSD system
"ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/src/";
"mget ssys.[a-d]*"
"mget sbase.[a-d]*"
then unpacked to src directory.
It's mentioned in README that you might need to build world
before you can buildkernel.
That's not something to look forward to :-(
A few weeks ago a netbsd buildworld took my p4-2400 system
around 12 hours to complete although I had it niced to low
priority.
It's also worth looking at the files UPDATING and Makefile.
On NetBSD for a first kernel I normally just copy GENERIC
to MYKERNEL and attempt to build that before making any
changes. Kernel takes 15-20 minutes.
David
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