From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 17:13: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C83814F73 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=genuine) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11CB9K-00063C-00; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:12:46 +0000 Message-ID: <0c7d01beded7$3b49a690$0400000a@oldserver.demon.nl> From: "Marc Schneiders" To: "Guenther Schmidt" , References: <37A8D0DF.FF44210B@worldcity.nl> Subject: Re: Kernel customization Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 02:12:38 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Original Message From: Guenther Schmidt To: > I'm just having my second go on FreeBSD (version 3.2 this time) and I > wanted to reconfigure the kernel. According to the handbook I just! have > to edit the .config (subsection arch), the easy way. > > It's taking the piss that is! > > > Isn't there a realy easy way (like make menuconfig under Linux) to do > so? > It is just as easy, because the FreeBSD file is not as long as the Linux one and not so complicated. The easy way to do it: Open your kernel config file (a copy of GENERIC with a new name) on one console with ee (or vi if you prefer, or whatever) and the LINT file on another. Edit your file first by throwing out what you do not have, SCSI controlers, nics, 2nd floppy, 3rd serial port etc. This is *not* difficult. Just put a "#" before it, in stead of pressing an N in linux. Then have a look at LINT for additional options. They are all explained! I have done both the linux and the FreeBSD more than once. linux takes much more time :-) Marc Schneiders marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message