Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:01:31 -0700 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script Message-ID: <19990530220131.B6AA0C9@io.checker.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 14:42:33 PDT." <199905302142.OAA12021@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > Perhaps this is the wrong list to post this question, but has there been
> > any work done on a script (similar to what Slackware Linux uses) that
> > asks the user questions ("Do you want to run SCO binaries", etc) and
> > configures a kernel conf file for them?
> >
> > If not, I'll volunteer to write one...
>
> Not useful; there's a single-line edit in /etc/rc.conf that does
> everything that's required.
That's just a bad example, linux has a loadable module for iBCS too.
Do you have a scsi card?
Do you have a sound card?
... etc.
I think its useful if it gets linux people less afraid of FreeBSD.
Of course its an ugly stop-gap, the whole kernel is moving to a more
dynamic model. Eventually all drivers will be a one-line edit to
loader.conf, or something along those lines...
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