From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 15:41:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles525.castles.com [208.214.165.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F4F14E1B for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 15:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12315; Sun, 30 May 1999 15:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905302238.PAA12315@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jake Burkholder Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 15:01:31 PDT." <19990530220131.B6AA0C9@io.checker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:38:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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