walt wrote: ... When I do it the old-fashined way, it works: > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL > make depend > make > make install I hope you know that's not what I really did: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ config MYKERNEL cd ../../ ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 22 2004 - 17:44

Hiten Pandya wrote: > walt wrote: > >> Matthew Dillon wrote: >> >>> All you need to do is build the latest kernel >>> like you usually do and boot with this line in >> >> >> > your /boot/loader.conf: >> >>> >>> kern.mmxopt=1 >> >> >> ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - May 7 2004 - 17:50

walt wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> Ok, get rid of the /etc/make.conf line... I think that might have >> been bad advise (we never tested that). > It's been working OK for me so far. Today I'm feeling bold so I set > CPUTYPE=athlon-xp ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Jun 23 2004 - 13:51

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > On Tuesday, 30. November 2004 22:40, walt wrote: > > My question: is there any inherent limitation in /boot/loader > > which would prevent loading the kernel from a logical partition? > ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Nov 30 2004 - 20:44

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:44:27PM -0800, walt wrote: > > I sympathize with this attitude, yes. But I just bought another > > hard drive for the sake of installing a FIFTH primary partition, > > ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Nov 30 2004 - 21:21

y On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hiten Pandya wrote: > walt wrote: > > Why not just pretend to be FreeBSD until such time as a proper ports > > system can be created and maintained for DragonFly? > That will not help in the long run. My favorite ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Apr 10 2005 - 12:59

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > -On [20050430 00:22], walt (wa1ter@myrealbox.com) wrote: > >>I'm wondering if I should start the long process of recompiling all of >>my ports. Is it likely that more libc breakage will be coming up in the >>next week ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Apr 29 2005 - 20:36

Michel Talon wrote: >> -On [20050920 00:11], walt (wa1ter@myrealbox.com) wrote: >>> I'll bet asmodai could finish this project in a day or two at most. > Well, a day or two is very optimistic... > ...this stuff is rather complicated C++, and i ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Sep 20 2005 - 18:35

Max Okumoto wrote: > Walt & Gang > > Damn, I knew I should read mail more often. :-/ > Things are fine... Ah, I'm happy to hear it. Obviously, you have not said to your wife: 'make dinner!' or you would not be so fine ;o) I can only hope that ...

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Jan 14 2006 - 22:10

I have a machine with a little-used FBSD-4.9 installation which I wouldn't mind sacrificing to try out DFBSD. So, I was wondering if I could just cvsup new DFBSD sources to replace the FBSD sources and proceed to compile the new system that way.

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 19 2004 - 22:57

esmith wrote: > Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > >> Now that's interesting. Is there a FreeBSD binary as well? > > > None that I noticed. I was surprised to find a netbsd binary and even > more surprised that there was not a FreeBSD binary, as well

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 19 2004 - 15:38

David Rhodus wrote: > Everything works fine if you follow the instructions > on the website. > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/upgrade-freebsd.cgi Thanks for being polite -- I would've said 'RTFM' ;-) Everything did indeed go very well,

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 20 2004 - 16:48

Well, after my perfect start yesterday I updated sources today and tried to recompile the system a second time: cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../.. -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../../sys -

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 20 2004 - 19:34

I'm getting some funny errors from portupgrade. Anyone else seeing these? # portupgrade XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 ** Invalid package name: x11/XFree86-4-libraries: : Not in due form: - ** The following packages were not installed

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 20 2004 - 23:03

Eli Scott wrote: > So, Anyone out there use Grub to boot Dragonfly? And, if so, how the > heck have you managed to do it? I converted an existing FreeBSD installation ;0) However, when dealing with FreeBSD I always had better luck using the '

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 21 2004 - 20:01

Matthew Dillon wrote: > It's too late tonight, but monday morning I will likely be committing > a major revamping of the buildworld code... Something that would have helped me a bit would be to have the 'upgrade' target delete /usr/include/*

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 22 2004 - 08:40

Matthew Dillon wrote: ...Hopefully I haven't broken anything too badly :-) 'make world' worked just fine for me. However (you knew there would be at least one) 'buildkernel' failed with this: awk -f /usr/src/sys/tools/makeobjops.awk -h /usr/src

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 22 2004 - 17:28

ibotty wrote: >>make -V SFILES -V SYSTEM_SFILES | xargs env MKDEP_CPP="cc -E" mkdep [..] >>[failing, env not found] > > > you did not by accident installed chris' make patch Not that I know of. I certainly did not download a patch and apply

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 22 2004 - 18:46

Dave Leimbach wrote: > Well I think my motherboard has gone crazy. > > I found a very affordable VIA KT600 based one but I don't know if that's a > good choice either. I've had great luck with my two ECS (www.ecsusa.com) motherboards -- and they

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Mar 27 2004 - 11:16

Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> The recent PIPE work adapted from Alan Cox's work in FreeBSD-5 has really > :> lit a fire under my seat. It's amazing how such a simple concept can > : > :I've always wondered: is it the

dragonflybsd-kernel - walt - Apr 4 2004 - 16:53