From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 01:17:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4176216A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:17:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F6B43D49 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:17:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5N1HAmc026003; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j5N1HAto026000; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <42BA0AAE.2000502@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20050622190904.M25941@wonkity.com> References: <42BA0AAE.2000502@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:11 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom kernel config questions for Linux user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:17:12 -0000 On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following > questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux > system, so... please no flames :(. > 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), or am I > 'stuck' with 'manually configuring' a textfile? sysinstall does some of that. Personally, I find plain text files much easier to deal with than most semi-automated helper programs. There are things like webmin in the ports collection. > 2) Is there a complete list of features which can be enabled for the > kernel, other what was in the GENERIC configuration file? See the LINT (4.x) or NOTES (5.x) files in the same directory. > 3) What is needed for the FreeBSD kernel and what modules need to be > compiled in order to use IDE CD-burning. In linux previous to kernel version > 2.6.8 I know that SCSI was required, but now they are doing proper IDE > emulation. 'man burncd' will show details about the stock IDE CD burning application. If you want to use SCSI emulation, there's the atapicam device. The man page for that shows setup. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA