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the fact that 2.1.0 will not install with 4 MB and a few others.
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<title>Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X
<author>The FreeBSD FAQ Team, <tt/FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG/
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.29 1996-01-03 14:58:04 roberto Exp $
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.30 1996-01-27 15:57:07 roberto Exp $
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5+, unless otherwise noted.
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email: <url url="mailto:orders@cdrom.com" name="WC Orders address"> <newline>
WWW: <url url="http://www.cdrom.com/" name="WC Home page"><newline>
In Australia, you may find it at the following:
Advanced MM Distributors<newline>
45 Elstone Ave<newline>
Airport West VIC 3042<newline>
Voice: +61 3 374-1410<newline>
Fax: +61 3 338-7411 fax<newline>
CDROM Support BBS<newline>
17 Irvine St<newline>
Peppermint Grove WA 6011<newline>
Voice: +61 9 385-3793<newline>
Fax: +61 9 385-2360<newline>
<sect1>
<heading>What are the FreeBSD mailing lists, and how can I get on them?</heading>
<p>
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FreeBSD.
<tag/committers/ CVS commit messages for -current users
<tag/chat/ What does not belong elsewhere, general chat, fun.
<tag/hubs/ This the mailing-list for all of the generous
people who manage the ``regional'' part of the <tt/freebsd.org/
domain.
<tag/users-groups/ This is the mailing list for the
coordinators from each of the local area Users Groups to
dicuss matters with each other and a designated individual
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<heading>Installation</heading>
<p>
<sect1>
<heading>How do I install FreeBSD?</heading>
<heading>How do I install FreeBSD?</heading>
<p>
<bf/IMPORTANT NOTE/ if you are installing 2.1.0R from tape, see
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</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>Help! I have no space! Do I need to delete everything first?</heading>
<heading>I have only 4 MB of memory in this machine. Can I install FreeBSD 2.1.0 ?</heading>
<p>
FreeBSD 2.1.0 does not install with 4 MB. To be exact: it does
not install with 640 kB base + 3 MB extended memory. If your
motherboard can remap some of the ``lost'' memory out of the
640kB to 1MB region, then you may still be able to get FreeBSD
2.1.0 up.
Try to go into your BIOS setup and look for a ``remap'' option.
Enable it. You may also have to disable ROM shadowing.
It may be easier to get 4 more MB just for the install. Build a
custom kernel with only the options you need and then get the 4
MB out again.
You may also install 2.0.5 and then upgrade your system to 2.1.0
with the ``upgrade'' option of the 2.1.0 installation program.
After the installation, if you build a custom kernel, it will run
in 4 MB. Someone has even succeded in booting with 2 MB (the
system was almost unusable though :-))
<sect1>
<heading>Help! I have no space! Do I need to delete everything first?</heading>
<p>
If your machine is already running DOS and has little or no free
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kind of installation you want.
<sect1>
<heading>Can I use compressed DOS filesystems from FreeBSD?</heading>
<heading>I have installed Windows 95 on to my home PC, and I want
to also install FreeBSD.</heading>
<p>
Install Windows 95 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot
manager will then manage to boot Win95 and FreeBSD.
<sect1>
<heading>Can I use compressed DOS filesystems from FreeBSD?</heading>
<p>
No. If you are using a utility such as Stacker(tm) or
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called ``<tt/pfdisk/'' (located in the <tt>tools/dos-tools</tt>
subdirectory) which can be used for this purpose.
<sect1>
<heading>I want to install my laptop with PLIP (Parallel Line IP). How's the cable ?
<p>
Connect the two computers using a Laplink parallel cable to use
this feature:
<verb>
+----------------------------------------+
|A-name A-End B-End Descr. Port/Bit |
+----------------------------------------+
|DATA0 2 15 Data 0/0x01 |
|-ERROR 15 2 1/0x08 |
+----------------------------------------+
|DATA1 3 13 Data 0/0x02 |
|+SLCT 13 3 1/0x10 |
+----------------------------------------+
|DATA2 4 12 Data 0/0x04 |
|+PE 12 4 1/0x20 |
+----------------------------------------+
|DATA3 5 10 Strobe 0/0x08 |
|-ACK 10 5 1/0x40 |
+----------------------------------------+
|DATA4 6 11 Data 0/0x10 |
|BUSY 11 6 1/0x80 |
+----------------------------------------+
|GND 18-25 18-25 GND - |
+----------------------------------------+
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>When I boot FreeBSD it says ``Missing Operating System''.</heading>
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<sect>
<heading>Miscellaneous Questions</heading>
<p>
<sect1>
<heading>Hey! Chmod doesn't change the file permissions of symlinked files! What's going on?</heading>
<heading>Why does FreeBSD consume far more swap space than Linux?</heading>
<p>
It doesn't. You might mean ``why does my swap seem full?''. If
that is what you really meant, it's because putting stuff in swap
rather than discarding it makes it faster to recover than if the
pager had to go through the file system to pull in clean
(unmodified) blocks from an executable.
The actual amount of dirty pages that you can have in core at
once is not reduced; the clean pages are displaced as necessary.
<sect1>
<heading>Hey! Chmod doesn't change the file permissions of symlinked files! What's going on?</heading>
<p>
You have to use either ``<tt/-H/'' or ``<tt/-L/'' together with
the ``<tt/-R/'' option to make this work. See the <tt/chmod(1)/
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This file describes how to setup sup on your machine. You may
also want to look at
<sect1><heading>Has anyone done any temperature testing while running FreeBSD? I know linux runs cooler than dos, but have never seen a mention of FreeBSD. It seems to run really hot</heading>
<tt>/usr/src/share/examples/sup/*-supfile</tt>, or you may grab
updated supfiles from:
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ/extras"
name="Updated SUP files">
which are a set of supfiles for supping from <tt/FreeBSD.ORG/.
<sect1>
<heading>Has anyone done any temperature testing while running FreeBSD? I know linux runs cooler than dos, but have never seen a mention of FreeBSD. It seems to run really hot</heading>
<p>
No, but we have done numerous taste tests on blindfolded
volunteers who have also had 250 micrograms of LSD-25
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now, working on their new ``scratch and sniff'' GUI. It's a
funny old business we're in!
<sect1><heading>Is there anything "odd" that FreeBSD does when compiling the kernel which would cause the memory to make a scratchy sound? When compiling (and for a brief moment after recognizing the floppy drive upon startup, as well), a strange scratchy sound emanates from what appears to be the memory banks.</heading>
Seriously, Linux use the ``<tt/HALT/'' instruction when the
system is idle thus lowering its energy comsumption and therefore
the heat it generates.
<sect1>
<heading>Is there anything "odd" that FreeBSD does when compiling the kernel which would cause the memory to make a scratchy sound? When compiling (and for a brief moment after recognizing the floppy drive upon startup, as well), a strange scratchy sound emanates from what appears to be the memory banks.</heading>
<p>
Yes! You'll see frequent references to ``daemons'' in the BSD
documentation, and what most people don't know is that this
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control over your machine to the eternal damnation of your soul.
Given a choice, I think I'd prefer to get used to the scratchy
noises, myself!
<tt>/usr/src/share/examples/sup/*-supfile</tt>, or you may grab
updated supfiles from:
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ/extras"
name="Updated SUP files">
which are a set of supfiles for supping from <tt/FreeBSD.ORG/.
<sect1>
<heading>How do I create customized installation disks that I can give out to other people at my site?</heading>
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you'd want to use <tt/131072/
<sect1>
<heading>Will FreeBSD ever support other architectures?</heading>
<heading>Sometimes my FreeBSD 2.0 reboots saying: ``Panic: kmem_map (or mb_map) too small !''.
<p>
The panic indicates that the system ran out of virtual memory for
network buffers (specifically, mbuf clusters). You can increase
the amount of VM avaliable for mbuf clusters by adding:
<code>
options "NMBCLUSTERS=<n>"
</code>
...to your kernel config file, where &lt;n&gt; is a number in the
range 512-4096, depending on the number of concurrent TCP
connections you need to support. I'd recommend trying 2048 - this
should get rid of the panic completely. You can monitor the
number of mbuf clusters allocated/in use on the system with
<tt/netstat -m/.
<sect1>
<heading>Will FreeBSD ever support other architectures?</heading>
<p>
Several different groups have expressed interest in working on