Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Mark D. Foster
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to a machine after successful installation of 6.3-release ? Do I need to compile a custom kernel ? Do I

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to a machine after successful installation of 6.3-release ? Do I need to compile a custom kernel ? Do I need to apply any patches ? no patches for now, but compiling custom kernel tailored to the

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings, I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to a machine after successful installation of 6.3-release ? Do I need to compile

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
for me, it's compiling a custom kernel and installing apps. TFC On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 18:23:17 Mark D. Foster wrote: Run csup -g -L2 /etc/supfile Hehe, -g is a no op for cvsup compat (with cvsup it disabled the GUI). Took me some months to quit typing that too :P -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 15:41:35 Darryl Hoar wrote: I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to a machine after successful installation of 6.3-release ? Do I need to compile a

RE: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Darryl Hoar
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 15:41:35 Darryl Hoar wrote: I have just installed 6.3-Release on brand new hardware. In the past, I have not done much to a machine after initial installation. What should be done to a machine after successful installation of 6.3-release ? Do I need to compile a

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 23:11:35 Darryl Hoar wrote: If you play games or use other apps that make processes grow beyond 512MB, you also need to set kern.defdsiz and kern.maxdsiz in /boot/loader.conf to a more desirable value (if you can spare the physical ram). I have 2GB RAM in

Re: Next steps... (long)

2002-11-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:25:29PM -0800, nuk wrote: Hello all, I've recently retired my home Linux boxes in favor of some new challenges... one of which is building a small home LAN server on an older Panasonic CF-71 P2-300 laptop w/ 128MB RAM and a 6GB HD. Installation went pretty