From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 1: 2: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C39314F6E for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA29378; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 04:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:02:12 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dean Hamstead Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel config In-Reply-To: <005501beb95f$4f7a4f40$c20c29cb@supadad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dean Hamstead wrote: > everyone is offcoarse awair of the nice happy menu system you get when > installing freebsd, that allows you to tell freebsd were hardware is.... > > visual editor -c or something is the comment in the kernel config file > > > how do i go about using it after i install my system?? > > i tried it at boot but no go > when you see the initial countdown at boot, hit the spacebar, then type: "boot -c" then at the next prompt you'll neet to type "visual" after the system is booted, you can use "kget" to retrieve the changes you made and save them to a file. look in /boot/ for the file to add it to. kget output looks like garbage, but it's really just abbreviated commands. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Win Telecom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message