Very Computer

I typed the following, exactly like from the man page:

     D=/myjail/192.168.0.2
     cd /usr/src
     mkdir -p $D
     make world DESTDIR=$D

When I got to make world I got a message saying "Stop.  Nothing to be
done."  I installed every package available on the FreeBSD 5.4 Release
CDs to make sure I had every package and tried again.  Still it said
the same thing.  I googled but I didn't see anything that matches my
problem.

I'm not exactly a UNIX expert although I have installed FreeBSD all by
myself.  I also compiled my own BSD kernel successfully after the
second try.  I even compiled the Linux kernel when I was using Linux
although it was quite messy.  Going from 2.4 to 2.6 requires new mod
utilities even though linus doesn't say anything in his readme about
it!  Took me a whole day to figure out why my modules weren't loading.
lol.

Well, I am a recent convert to BSD from Linux and I must say that BSD
is completely more logical than Linux ever was.  The kernel build
process in FreeBSD is much easier than Linux.  FreeBSD boots in a
quarter of the time that Linux did on my computer.

Anyway, if the Linux->BSD conversion was so good for me, would the
BSD->Solaris 10 be just as good?  Would someone of my experience be
able to install Solaris 10?  I'm mostly interested in zones as I have
one computer and I would like my Postgresql database to be in one
jail/zone and the web server in another.  Since BSD is not letting my
create jails easily I was thinking if Solaris 10 is easy to install, I
may just try that instead.

Also, I've gotten used to not having runlevels.  Has Solaris 10 ever
considered abandoning Sys V and going more ala BSD?  Symlinks to empty
files seems rather silly when BSD init have proven to be better...but
zones/jails are more important to me so I'll overlook the runlevels
issues..

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.]

I doubt that was the literal error message, but it sounds like you
don't have the FreeBSD source installed.  If you think you do, then
please post an exact transcript.

Quote:> I installed every package available on the FreeBSD 5.4 Release
> CDs to make sure I had every package and tried again.

This is irrelevant and just took up space on your system ..the
packages are third party software and not required for operation of
FreeBSD :-)

Kris

Most likely.

Quote:> Also, I've gotten used to not having runlevels.  Has Solaris 10 ever
> considered abandoning Sys V and going more ala BSD?  Symlinks to empty

Heh.  That waould truely be a step backwards, because Solaris (then called
SunOS) went from BSD -> SVR4 more than a decade ago!

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OTOH you call it 'righting a wrong' :-)

Bill

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