From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 13:15:45 2004 Return-Path: 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 BC91D16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (svr8.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B058843D2D for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76404605; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:15:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-82-135-1-234.mnet-online.de [82.135.1.234]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6287C2F902; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:15:42 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: "J.D. Bronson" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:15:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040101145617.00b357f0@cheyenne.wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040101145617.00b357f0@cheyenne.wixb.com> X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_93I9/kKClCO5jbL"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401012215.41790@harrymail> Subject: Re: 5.2-RC2 customize questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:15:45 -0000 --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--