From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 14:59:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from io.checker.org (h24-66-174-118.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.174.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA33B14C4E for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 14:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@checker.org) Received: from io.checker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by io.checker.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6AA0C9 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 15:01:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 14:42:33 PDT." <199905302142.OAA12021@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:01:31 -0700 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <19990530220131.B6AA0C9@io.checker.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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... -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message