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. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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