Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:38:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script Message-ID: <199905302238.PAA12315@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 15:01:31 PDT." <19990530220131.B6AA0C9@io.checker.org>
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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.
I'm not sure we want those sort of people. But there's already a
script that behaves like this and writes a standard config file; search
the list archives.
> 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...
Ideally, no interaction at all will be required.
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