From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 08:19:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E91316A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:19:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0C8A43D3F for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:18:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 27763 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2005 08:13:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 12 Mar 2005 08:13:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 16968 invoked by uid 89); 12 Mar 2005 08:25:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Mar 2005 08:25:34 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210F011497; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:55 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:54 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: David Adam Message-ID: <20050312101854.695bf44d@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: <68b3483d050310012555c067f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: h p Subject: Re: Configuration of current kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:19:00 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:52:15 +0800 (WST) David Adam wrote: > Helge, > > Firstly, this really isn't the right list for these questions. You should > be sending them to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org instead. Indeed. > However, I'll do my best to help you out. > > Features like ext2fs (and, in fact, any file system that you don't want to > boot off), snd_emu101k, and just about anything that goes in your kernel > config (there are some notable exceptions, and you shouldn't leave out > anything that you need to get your machine booting) can be left out of > your kernel config file and instead loaded as modules. > > When you compile a kernel, it's a bit different to Linux, in that EVERY > kernel module gets compiled and can (usually) be kldloaded later. This > means that the compile takes a bit longer but you often don't have to > recompile to add things like new sound cards or network cards. But you can sett certain vars in /etc/make/conf to disable this behaviour. See for details: /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"