From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 14:54:16 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 0FD0E16A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:54:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spammesilly@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97DA43D48 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:54:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spammesilly@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so899792wri for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:54:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=dTUQklKRV+hGRuc2hNa8WRdnHgjrhIWVYwpDnwruRtLDUcOC+4H+YQZ8hnPIzMzc0+AEfzQCrqnFD1S+oS+1Dr0xccGAWEAdJGV7yn1TelpSRuvA0/12Lj2UX/jOZaDY/zeRY8JRZamd8OppZOMFdtTlrPpNbS81cgdwh18u4BY= Received: by 10.54.143.4 with SMTP id q4mr1200127wrd; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.96.12 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:54:13 -0400 From: Daniel Gonzalez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re Custom kernel config questions linux user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gonzalez List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:54:16 -0000 Hello, 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 :(. I was a Slackware devotee for about 4 years and a SuSe user for 2 before moving to FreeBSD. Nothing wrong with cutting your teeth on a Linux system to get comfortable with a "Unix-like" OS. One thing I found out by switching to FreeBSD is the documentation (online/print) is far superior to= =20 what's out there for Linux. 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), or am I 'stuck' with 'manually configuring' a textfile? That depends on what you want to configure. I prefer using editors on the= =20 files as I seem to better understand the programs I'm configuring. Check ports/package= s=20 to see if there are GUIs. Chances are that there will be some sort of GUIs for configuring most of a= =20 FreeBSD system. Check out SWAT or=20 I think there may be something called Webmin? 2) Is there a complete list of features which can be enabled for the kernel, other what was in the GENERIC configuration file? The FreeBSD handbook section on rebuilding kernels, I believe refers you to= =20 the "NOTES" section under the /usr/src directory which will list options to be added to the kernel for extra performance=20 tweaks for your specific system/processor. 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. Your best bet is to check out this link:=20 http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/FreeBSD-Burning.php It's the same link I used to get info for IDE CD-burning on FreeBSD (5.4RC2= ).=20 I also used the online FreeBSD Handbook which has been an outstanding source of information on rebuilding kernels (among many= =20 other things). Thanks, I'll most likely have more questions later. -Garrett No problem with the questions. I gauge my knowledge of a subject by how wel= l=20 I can explain it to someone else --=20 Dan Gonzalez spammesilly at gmail dot com IM: signulth