Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:15:37 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jeff_bronson@wixb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RC2 customize questions Message-ID: <200401012215.41790@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040101145617.00b357f0@cheyenne.wixb.com> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040101145617.00b357f0@cheyenne.wixb.com>
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--Boundary-02=_93I9/kKClCO5jbL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:59, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I have installed 5.2RC2 on i386 and have all of it working well (including > ACPI with HTT) > > Since I am much more familiar with the 4.x flavor, is there any web area > that explains the following: > > 1. it seems alot of startup was moved to /etc/rc.d...thats cool, but I do= nt > see the connection as to how things in there are being invoked? I just can tell you that RCng was merged from NetBSD some months ago. > > 2. How can I get rid of the boot menu and boot 5.2 like 4.x ? You can edit /boot/loader.rc and comment the line "include /boot/beastie.4t= h"=20 and "beastie-start" > > 3. I built a custom kernel and chose to incorporate 'hints' within the > kernel and that seems to work, but I noticed alot of modules still get > built for devices I didnt include or list (like scsi and sound)...how can= I > effectively remove devices I dont have ? That's because modules are built together with the kernel not with the worl= d.=20 You can change this by adding the following to /etc/make.conf "NO_MODULES=3D true" or or and/or "MODULES_WITH_WORLD=3Dtrue" > > ..other than this (so far)..I am very pleased at the performance! Well then you seem to have very fast hardware. Regarding disk transfer and= =20 network speed there is plenty to do (see Greg Leheys latest measurements) =2DHarry > > thanks. --Boundary-02=_93I9/kKClCO5jbL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/9I39Bylq0S4AzzwRAiK8AJsGXUscJfB03pt/IIRCmzlr5ECXSgCeJ3t3 ldsDkwUoFT8lx5Zh7fW9S+k= =2JuF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_93I9/kKClCO5jbL--
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